mjtj

Egyptian

mjt (“similarity”) +‎ -j (“nisba ending”), ultimately from mj (“like”).

Declension of mjtj (nisba adjective)

	masculine	feminine
singular	mjtj	mjtt
dual	mjtjwj, mjtwj	mjttj
plural	mjtjw, mjtw	mjtwt¹, mjtt²
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mjtj

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mjt

m

Declension of mjtj (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mjtj

mjt

mjtj

mjt

[Old Kingdom]

[Middle Kingdom to 26th Dynasty]

m

Declension of mjtj (masculine)

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 39.1–39.12
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 104
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 90–91.

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