mdw ( “ word ” ) + nṯr ( “ god ” ) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the god’s word’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition .
( reconstructed ) IPA (key ) : /ˌmaːtʼaw ˈnaːcaɾ/ → /ˌmaːtʼaw ˈnaːtaʔ/ → /ˌmaːtʼə ˈnaːta/ → /ˌmoːtʼ ˈnoːtə/
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sacred literature traditionally written in hieroglyphic writing
― mḏꜣwt n(w)t mdw-nṯr ― books of sacred writings
Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
Synonym: zẖꜣw-mdw-nṯr
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mdw , nṯr .
Declension of mdw-nṯr (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-nṯr
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“mdw-nṯr (lemma ID 78190) ”, 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 (1928 ) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache [2] , volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN , pages 180.13–181.6
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962 ) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian , Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN , page 122
L. H. Lesko (1972) The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways , University of California Press, p. 64.