mtj

See also: MTJ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: meti

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) precise or exact
2. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) scrupulous or exact, to be(come) precise in knowing, judging, and acting correctly (+ n: for (someone), + m: in (a place))
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 1.1:

     wḏꜣ snḏw ḥz mt

     The deferential man is sound; the scrupulous man is honored.

3. (intransitive) to be(come) correct, the right one
4. (intransitive) to be(come) rightful, proper
5. (intransitive) to be(come) customary, usual
6. (intransitive, of seasons, offerings, festivals) to be(come) regular

Inflection

Conjugation of mtj (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: mtj

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural mtj mtjw, mtj mtjt mtj mtj ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 mtj ḥr mtj m mtj r mtj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect mtj.n consecutive mtj.jn terminative mtjt perfective3 mtj obligative1 mtj.ḫr imperfective mtj prospective3 mtj potentialis1 mtj.kꜣ subjunctive mtj verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect mtj.n — — perfective mtj mtj mtj, mtjw5, mtjy5 imperfective mtj, mtjy, mtjw5 mtj, mtjj6, mtjy6 mtj, mtjw5 prospective mtj, mtjtj7 mtjtj4, mtjt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mtj  

mtr	mtj

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲙⲁⲧⲉ (mate)

Noun

 m

1. correctness, exactness, scrupulousness

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

References

• “mtj (lemma ID 400854)”, “mtj (lemma ID 77420)”, and “mtj (lemma ID 77680)”, 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 168.1, 169, 173.1–174.4
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 120
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 854
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 146