mnmnt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛnmɛnɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: menmenet

Noun

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1. (collective) herd of cattle
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 11–12:

     tꜣ pn m-ꜥ.f mw.f ṯꜣw.f sm(w).f mnmnt.f nbt pꜣyt nbt ḫnnt nbt ḏdfwt.f ꜥwt.f ḫꜣst smꜣꜥ.w n zꜣ nwt tꜣwj hr.w ḥr.s

     This land is in his hand — its water and its wind, its plants and all its cattle, all that flies and all that lands, its creeping creatures and its quadrupeds of the desert, were given to the son of Nut, and the Two Lands (Egypt) are pleased with it.

Inflection

Declension of mnmnt (feminine)

singular	mnmnt
dual	mnmntj
plural	mnmnwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mnmnt  

mnmn

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 171.