Egyptian
Etymology
From mt (“a kind of linen?; strip?”) + jfd (“sheet”) in a direct genitive construction.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- rectangular strip of linen [18th Dynasty]
Inflection
Declension of mt-jfd (masculine)
| singular
|
mt-jfd
|
| dual
|
mtwj-jfd
|
| plural
|
mtw-jfd
|
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mt-jfd
References
- “mt-jfd (lemma ID 77350)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 71.17
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 168.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 120