mḥ tꜣ

See also: mḥ-tꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

From mḥ (“cubit”) +‎ tꜣ (“land”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘a cubit of land‘; since land was parcelled into strips of 1 by 100 cubits, one such strip of 100 square cubits was considered ‘a cubit of land’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛħ tɑ/
- Conventional anglicization: meh ta

Noun

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a centaroura, a measure of area equivalent to one hundredth of a sṯꜣt (“aroura”) or 100 square mḥw (“cubits”) (about 0.0028 hectares).

Inflection

Declension of mḥ tꜣ (masculine)

singular	mḥ tꜣ
dual	mḥwj tꜣ
plural	mḥw tꜣ

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥ tꜣ

mḥ tꜣ

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN

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