mdw-rḫyt

Egyptian

Etymology

mdw (“staff, custodian”) +‎ rḫyt (“common people”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff/custodian of the common people’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛduː rɛxiːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: medu-rekhyt

Noun

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1. a title: ‘staff of the common people’ [chiefly Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of mdw-rḫyt (masculine)

singular	mdw-rḫyt
dual	mdwwj-rḫyt
plural	mdww-rḫyt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-rḫyt  

mdw-rḫyt

References

• “mdw-rḫ.yt (lemma ID 450602)”, 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
• Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 1698, pages 453–454
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 178.12, 447.17