mṯn

See also: MTN and mtn.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛt͡ʃɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: metjen

Noun

 m

1. way, road, path (+ genitive: leading to (a place), followed by (a person)) [since the Old Kingdom]
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:

     wꜣt zš.tj mṯnw wn(.w)

     The road is traversable, the paths are open.

2. course, path, trajectory (of the stars in the sky, etc.)
3. way of leading one’s life, particularly the right way

Inflection

Declension of mṯn (masculine)

singular	mṯn
dual	mṯnwj
plural	mṯnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mṯn  

mjt

[Late Period]

Synonyms

• wꜣt

Derived terms

• mḏd mṯn
• th-mtn

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲉⲓⲧ (maeit)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲱⲓⲧ (mōit)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲓⲧ (mait)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲉⲓⲧ (moeit)

Noun

 m

1. guide or scout along a path [Middle Kingdom and 19th Dynasty]
2. sheikh, leader of a band of desert nomads or bedouins

Inflection

Declension of mṯn (masculine)

singular	mṯn
dual	mṯnwj
plural	mṯnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mṯn  

mtn	mtn
[Middle Kingdom]	[19th Dynasty]

References

• “mṯn (lemma ID 77960)” and “mṯn (lemma ID 77970)”, 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 176.1–176.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 230.