mꜥnḏt

Egyptian

Etymology

m- (noun-forming prefix) +‎ ꜥnḏw (“dawn, sunlight”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix)

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /mVʕˈnicʼwVt/ → /mVʕˈnitʼwVʔ/ → /məʕˈnetʼwa/ → /məʕˈnetʼwə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /mVʕˈnicʼwVt/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /mVʕˈnitʼwVʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /məʕˈnetʼwa/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /məʕˈnetʼwə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɑːnd͡ʒɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: mandjet

Proper noun

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1. the barque in which the sun sails through the sky during the morning and daytime; the day-barque of Ra

   Antonym: (the night barque) msktt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mꜥnḏt  

ꜥḏt	ꜥḏt

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 48.1–48.8