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

Alternative forms

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References

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

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