ḏd-mdw

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See also: Dd-mdw

Egyptian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ḏd (to say) +‎ mdw (speech, words), with ḏd in the infinitive.

Pronunciation[edit]

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌcʼaːtʼ maˈtʼuww//ˌt͡ʃʼaːʔ maˈtʼuww//t͡ʃʼəməˈtʼuww//t͡ʃʼəməˈtʼøww/

Noun[edit]

D&dmdZ1
Z2ss

 m

  1. (singular only) recitation (+ jn or (since the 19th Dynasty) n: by; + ḥr: about; + ḫft: when doing); used as a title to introduce various kinds of text to be recited [since the Pyramid Texts]
    1. introduces the words spoken by a particular god in temple inscriptions, monuments, and old religious texts
      • c. 1450 BCE, The Poetical Stela of Thutmose III: Part I, Cairo Museum 34010:[1]
        mdD i Nimn
        n
        ra Z1
        nb
        W11 W11 W11
        N17
        N17
        N21
        N21
        ḏd-mdw jn jmn-rꜥ nb-nswt-tꜣwj
        A recitation by Amun-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands.
    2. introduces the main bulk of a religious spell or utterance, after any prologues
    3. introduces a line of text in general in some collections of religious utterances
  2. introduces the name of a god, without any following text to be recited [Late Period]
  3. (uncommon) written in place of omitted text; ‘the usual (words to recite)’
  4. (rare, only attested in a single manuscript) introduces explanatory glosses to a text [Book of the Dead]
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ḏd,‎ mdw.

Usage notes[edit]

This term may be followed immediately by ḏd to indicate that the following text is to be recited without interruption after the preceding one, or by zp and a number to indicate how many times the following text is to be recited.

Alternative forms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Demotic: ḏd-mdt, ḏd-md

References[edit]

  • ḏd-mdw (lemma ID 186050)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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
  • ḏd (mdw) (lemma ID 852969)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 180.8–180.10
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[4], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 625.3–626.5
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 325
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 169.