msꜣḏt
Egyptian
Etymology
m- (noun-forming prefix) + swꜣḏ (“to freshen”) + -t (feminine ending).
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /masˈwiʀcʼit/ → /masˈwiʀtʼiʔ/ → /məsˈwiːtʼə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛsɑd͡ʒɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: mesadjet
Noun
f
- (chiefly in the dual) nostril
Inflection
Declension of msꜣḏt (feminine)
singular | msꜣḏt |
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dual | msꜣḏtj |
plural | msꜣḏwt |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of msꜣḏt
msꜣḏt | msꜣdt | msdt | msꜣdtj | mstj | mstj | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[Coffin Texts] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
in the dual | in the dual | in the dual |
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 153.5–153.6
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 117
- van der Molen, Rami (2000) A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 182