st-r-mḏd

Egyptian

Etymology

st (“shooting”) +‎ r (“in order to”) +‎ mḏd (“hit the mark”), thus ‘(one) who shoots to hit’, i.e. ‘one who shoots unerringly’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛt ɛr mɛd͡ʒɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: set-er-medjed

Noun

 m

1. epithet for the king [New Kingdom]

References

• “st-r-mḏd (lemma ID 861649)”, 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 191.17
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 124