mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ

Egyptian

Etymology

mdw (“staff, custodian”) +‎ kꜣ (“bull”) +‎ ḥḏ (“white”) with the first two elements in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff/custodian of the white bull’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛduː kɑ hɛd͡ʒ/
  • Conventional anglicization: medu-ka-hedj

Noun

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1. a priestly title: ‘herdsman of the white bull’ [Old Kingdom]

Inflection

singular	mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ
dual	mdwwj-kꜣ-ḥḏ
plural	mdww-kꜣ-ḥḏ

Declension of mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ (masculine)

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ  

mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ	mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ

References

• “mdw-kꜣ-ḥḏ (lemma ID 853131)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• 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, § 1701, page 455
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 178.13
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 96.12