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
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. 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