Now that we have looked at the Adjectival Sentences, I would like to spend a little time discussing all of the Nonverbal Sentences.  There are three types of nonverbal sentences in Mdw-Ntr.  These are:

1.) the Adjectival Sentence, which we saw in Lesson 7;

2.) the Nominal Sentence and

3.) the Adverbal Sentence.

Each of these three types of nonverbal sentences have a particular meaning.

1.) The Adjectival Sentence expresses the quality of the subject of the sentence; i.e. nfr sj “She fine.”

2.) The Adverbal Sentence expresses a state of being sj m pr.k [“She in your house.”] 
[This state of being in the Adverbal Sentence can signify a place, condition, status, etc.]

3.) The Nominal Sentence expresses the identity of the subject; i.e. sw it hrd.j “He my baby daddy.”

1.) The Adjectival Sentence has the normal pattern of predicate – subject.
nfr sj [She fine.]
 

2.) The Adverbal Sentence normally has the pattern of subject – predicate.
sj m pr.k [She in your house.]
[However, there are times when the pattern will be predicate – subject.]
 

3.) The Nominal Sentence can have any of four patterns
 

          a.) subject – predicate  sw it hrd.j [He my baby daddy.]

          b.) predicate – subject st nn [This the place.]

          c.) subject pw predicate s(j) mri pw mut.j [My momma Mary.]

          d.) predicate pw subject  s.j pw swtn [This man king.]
 
 

THINK ABOUT THIS AS YOU MASTER MDW-NTR.






Okay, let's surf out onto the web!

Terry Donnelly has created a very nice web site for the examination of Mdw-Ntr.  The title of the site is "Terry's Egyptian Pages"  One of Terry's most popular pages is his "Egyptian Word Of The Day."  Each day a javascript program posts a new Mdw-Ntr word with its transcription and translation.  This site is great for practicing your vocabulary.  You may also want to write down the words on flash cards to use when you are not on line, and when you want to review several words at one time.

So let's take a trip over to Terry's "Egyptian Word Of The Day" and see what it looks like.  “Terry’s Word Of The Day” at "http://www.oocities.org/weseb_2000/eword2.html"  But make sure your browser is Java Enabled.

How about that?  Pretty neat, huh?  Now you devotees of Mdw-Ntr can set “Terry’s Word Of The Day”  as your “start-up” page in your browser, so each time you fire up your computer and go on the net, you will learn a new word for your Mdw-Ntr vocabulary.

So let’s go see what else Terry has online that we can enjoy.

Ah, yes!  There is the “Stele of Princess Nefertiabet”  This page has a nice picture of a tomb offering.  In review the writing of Nefertiabet’s name, Terry gives us an example of "honorific transposition," which is something you will encounter quite often in Mdw-Ntr.  There is also a helpful reminder about gender distinction in Hieroglyphic writing.  Also see how many of the hieroglyphs you can recognize on the wall behind the image of the princess.  Now, let's go to the
“Stele of Princess Nefertiabet” at:  http://www.oocities.org/weseb_2000/nefert.html
 

Next, lets take a look at “The Vizier Ramose”.  I am sure that you are all familiar with the term Vizier from the tales of the Arabian Nights, etc.  It is not a word from Mdw-Ntr however [as far as I know]. It is an Arabic term.  But there is a Mdw-Ntr word on this page that is in use in Arabic today, and is even found in English dictionaries.  The word “emir” which means governor or chief comes from the word “imy-r” that Terry mentions in his page about Ramose.  The word “imy-r” is often written in Mdw-Ntr as “m-r” as well [”m” – “er”]

Terry also briefly discusses abbreviations which often are used in Hieroglyphs.  [I guess if you were carving in stone, you would abbreviate as much as you could too.]  Next stop:  “The Vizier Ramose” at:  http://www.oocities.org/weseb_2000/eramose.html
 

A great deal of Mdw-Ntr that you will see will be taken for tomb inscriptions.  An more likely than not those inscriptions will include what is known as a “Formula Offering.”  Formula Offerings are very much like prayers.  They are the verbalizations for the well being of the deceased and for respect of the gods and the deceased.  At Terry’s “An Offering Formula” we find an example of one such Offering and a brief explanation.  Okay, I hope you are not tired of Terry's pages, because now we are going to  “An Offering Formula” at:
http://www.oocities.org/weseb_2000/edoodle2.html

Before we leave Terry’s pages for now, I would like for you to look at his page entitled: “Writing Egyptian.”  Here you will find a discourse on the different types of writing that you could encounter in Mdw-Ntr.  This is useful to know, because you want to be able to recognize Mdw-Ntr whenever you see it, no matter what form it takes.  So, for our last visit with Terry for now, let's surf over to  “Writing Egyptian.” at:
 http://www.oocities.org/weseb_2000/ecursive.html

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