mwt

Likely a babble word in origin, like many of its Afroasiatic parallels.^[1] Militarev and Stolbova derive it from a supposed Proto-Afroasiatic form instead, but also note it may be a nursery word.^[2] If not, perhaps cognate with Proto-Semitic *ʔimm-.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /muːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: mut

 f

1. mother
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.11–1.12:

     ḫr (tw)r n(j) ḥr r dfꜣ jb jmꜣ n.f kꜣhs r mwt.f

     One who is averted of face against feeding the heart (i.e. one who doesn’t indulge himself), the harsh man has to be more kindly to him than his (own) mother.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mwt  

mwt	mt	mjt	mjt

• Demotic: mwt
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲟ (mo), ⲙⲱ (mō)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲩ (mau)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲉⲩ (meeu), ⲙⲉⲟⲩ (meou), ⲙⲏⲟⲩ (mēou)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲙⲉⲉⲩ (meeu)
  • Old Coptic: ⲙⲉⲟⲩ (meou)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲁⲩ (maau), ⲙⲁⲩ (mau)

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 f

1. (Egyptian mythology) the primordial waters [Old Kingdom]
2. Mut, the vulture goddess worshipped as part of the Theban Triad

• →? Meroitic: 𐦨𐦴 (mt /⁠mata⁠/)

From Proto-Afroasiatic *mawVt- (“to die, to kill”). Cognate with Proto-Semitic *mawut-, Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⵎⵜ (mmt) and Hausa mutù.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /muːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: mut

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to die
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 122–123:

     šm.k ḥnꜥ.sn r ẖnw m(w)t.k m nwt.k

     You will go home with them, and you will die in your (own) town.

2. (intransitive, figuratively, of ships) to sink
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 37–39:

     ꜥḥꜥ.n dpt m(w)t(.tj) ntjw jm.s nj zp wꜥ jm

     Then the boat died, and of those in it, not one of them survived.

3. (intransitive, figuratively) to die inside, to despair
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 131–132:

     ꜥḥꜥ.n.j m(w)t.kw n.sn gm.n.j st m ẖꜣyt wꜥt

     Then I died for them, having found them as a single heap of corpses.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mwt  

mt	mt

• Demotic: mwt
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩ (mou), ⲙⲟⲩⲧ (mout)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩ (mou), ⲙⲱⲟⲩⲧ (mōout)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩ (mou)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩ (mou), ⲙⲟⲩⲟⲩⲧ (mouout)
  • Old Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩ (mou)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩ (mou), ⲙⲟⲩⲟⲩⲧ (mouout)

 m

1. death

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mwt  

mt	mt

• Demotic: mwt
  • Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩ (mou) (Akhmimic, Bohairic, Fayyumic, Lycopolitan, Old Coptic, Sahidic)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /muːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: mut

 f

1. (physics) weight

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 97
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN