mdw n š

Egyptian

Etymology

mdw (“staff”) +‎ n(j) (“of”) +‎ š (“lake”), thus ‘staff of the lake’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛduː ɛn ʃɛ/
  • Conventional anglicization: medu en she

Noun

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1. a kind of staff or scepter

References

• “mdw-n-š (lemma ID 858539)”, 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, page 178.5