rnpt-mḏd-ꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

rnpt (“year”) +‎ mḏd (“driving in, striking true, staying true to”) +‎ ꜥ (“arm”) in two direct genitive constructions, thus perhaps ‘year of the driving in of the arm’(?). The exact sense of mḏd intended here is unclear.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛnpɛt mɛd͡ʒɛd ɑː/
- Conventional anglicization: renpet-medjed-a

Noun

m

year of hardship, distress, need [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of rnpt-mḏd-ꜥ (masculine)

singular	rnpt-mḏd-ꜥ
dual	rnptj-mḏd-ꜥ
plural	rnpwt-mḏd-ꜥ

References

“mḏd-ꜥ (lemma ID 78820)”, 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, page 192.8
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 124