th-mtn

Egyptian

Etymology

th (“(one) transgressing, violating, deviating from”) +‎ mtn (“way, road, path”), thus literally ‘one deviating from the path’. This term is not attested with the older writing of mtn, namely mṯn.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛh mɛtɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: teh-meten

Noun

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1. transgressor, wrongdoer, one who violates one’s social obligations
2. (with following genitive) one who is disloyal, rebellious, insubordinate against (someone), one who violates one’s social obligations to (another)

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of th-mtn  

th-mtn	th-mtn

References

• “th-mṯn (lemma ID 172940)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 320.14–320.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122