mṯn
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛt͡ʃɛn/
- Conventional anglicization: metjen
Noun
m
- way, road, path (+ genitive: leading to (a place), followed by (a person)) [since the Old Kingdom]
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:


![O34 [z] z](../I/hiero_O34.png.webp)
![N37 [S] S](../I/hiero_N37.png.webp)

![U33 [ti] ti](../I/hiero_U33.png.webp)
![M17 [i] i](../I/hiero_M17.png.webp)

![V13 [T] T](../I/hiero_V13.png.webp)
![N35 [n] n](../I/hiero_N35.png.webp)
![W24 [nw] nw](../I/hiero_W24.png.webp)
![G43 [w] w](../I/hiero_G43.png.webp)


![E34 [wn] wn](../I/hiero_E34.png.webp)

- wꜣt zš.tj mṯnw wn(.w)
- The road is traversable, the paths are open.
- course, path, trajectory (of the stars in the sky, etc.)
- way of leading one’s life, particularly the right way
Inflection
Declension of mṯn (masculine)
| singular | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) |
|---|---|
| dual | mṯnwj |
| plural | mṯnw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mṯn
| mjt | ||||
| [Late Period] |
Synonyms
Descendants
Noun
m
Inflection
Declension of mṯn (masculine)
| singular | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) |
|---|---|
| dual | mṯnwj |
| plural | mṯnw |
References
- “mṯn (lemma ID 77960)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
- “mṯn (lemma ID 77970)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 176.1–176.10
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 122
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 230.
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