mt-jfd

Egyptian

Etymology

From mt (“a kind of linen^?; strip^?”) +‎ jfd (“sheet”) in a direct genitive construction.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛt ifɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: met-ifed

Noun

 m

1. rectangular strip of linen [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of mt-jfd (masculine)

singular	mt-jfd
dual	mtwj-jfd
plural	mtw-jfd

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mt-jfd  

mtj-jfd	mt-jfd

References

• “mt-jfd (lemma ID 77350)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 71.17
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 168.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 120