nmtj-m-zꜣ.f

Egyptian

Etymology

nmtj (“Nemty”) +‎ m (“in, in the role of”) +‎ zꜣ (“protection”) +‎ .f (“his”), thus literally ‘Nemty is his protection’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛmti ɛm zɑʔɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: nemti-em-za.ef

Proper noun

 m

1. A given name of historical usage, notably borne by Nemtyemzaef Merenre I and II, two pharaohs of the Sixth Dynasty
   • c. 2255 BCE – 2246 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Merenre — west wall of the corridor’s middle section, line 12–13, spell 606.26–606.28:

     nmtj-m-zꜣ.f mr.n-rꜥ pn ḏj.sn ꜥnḫ.k nḥr.k jtrw ḥr-ꜣḫtj m jrt.sn rn.f m ḥr jr nṯrw

     O Nemtyemzaef Merenre, they will make you live and equal the seasons of Horakhty when they made his identity as the One Far From The Gods.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nmtj-m-zꜣ.f  

ḏfꜣ-m-zꜣ.f

Abydos King List; ḏfꜣ is a placeholder that means ‘lacuna’ and indicates the first sign was already unknown in Ramesside times

Descendants

(possibly, with metathesis:)

• → Ancient Greek: Μεθουσοῦφις (Methousoûphis), Μενθεσοῦφις (Menthesoûphis)

References

• “Nmt.j-m-zꜣ⸗f (lemma ID 854416)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 43
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 57–58, 185
• Sethe, Kurt (1908) Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte nach den Papierabdrücken und Photographien des Berliner Museums, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, volume 1, page XII