msdmt

Egyptian

Etymology

From m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ sdm (“makeup; to put on makeup”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /misˈtʼuːmit/ → /misˈtʼuːmiʔ/ → /məsˈtʼuːma/ → /məsˈtʼeːmə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /misˈtʼuːmit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /misˈtʼuːmiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /məsˈtʼuːma/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /məsˈtʼeːmə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛsdɛmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: mesdemet

Noun

 f

1. a black mineral pigment used as eye makeup and in medicinal preparations for treating eye disease; mesdemet
2. the mineral material from which this pigment is made, as used for making small cultic images and other objects [New Kingdom and Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of msdmt (feminine)

singular	msdmt
dual	msdmtj
plural	msdmwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic forms of the phonetic component of msdmt  

msdt	msdt	msdmt	msdmt	msdmt	msḏmt	msdmt
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Alternative determinatives of msdmt  

		also used as an abbreviation for the word

Descendants

• Demotic: mstm, mstme.t, smṱ
  • >? Bohairic Coptic: ⲉⲥⲑⲏⲙ (esthēm)
    • → Arabic: إثمد (ʾiṯmid)
      • → Latin: antimonium
        • → English: antimony
  • >? Sahidic Coptic: ⲥⲧⲏⲙ (stēm)
    • → Ancient Greek: στίμμι (stímmi), στίβι (stíbi)
      • → Latin: stibium
        • → English: stibium, stibnite

References

• “msdm.t (lemma ID 76190)”, 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 153.8–153.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 118