Where does “mt” come from?
mt (Demotic) comes from Egyptian mdt, from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.
mt (Demotic): speech, matter
Ancestry of “mt”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Egyptian | mdt | word; a speech; the text of a command |
| 2 | Egyptian | -t | Used to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An... |
| 3 | Proto-Afro-Asiatic | -t | — |