nmtt

nmt (“to stride over, traverse”) +‎ -t.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛmtɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: nemtet

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1. stride, march, walking [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. manner of stepping or walking; gait, stride
   • c. 2061–2010 BCE, Stela of Irtisen (Louvre C14), lines 9–10:

     [sic]

     jw(.j) rḫ.kw šmt twt nmtt rpwt ꜥḥꜥw nw ꜣ mḏw-wꜥ

     I know the gait of a male figure, the stride of a female figure, and the stances of the eleven birds.

3. goings, journeys, travels, course
   • Reign of Senusret III, c. 1878–1839 BCE, Stela of Ikhernofret (Berlin ÄM 1204), lines 18–19:

     jw jr.n.j prt-ꜥꜣt šms.j nṯr r nmtt.f dj.n.j sqd dpt-nṯr ḏḥwtj ḥr mꜣꜥ [sqd]wt

     I undertook the Great Procession, following the god at his travels; I made the god’s boat sail, with Thoth directing the sailing.

4. procedure, course of proceeding or action

Often found in parallel with šmt.

• “nmt.t (lemma ID 84510)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 271.1–271.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 133–134