Who is the ancient Egyptian goddess of cats?

Answer 1

In hieroglyphs: 𓏇𓇋𓅱𓃠 (Gardiner's code: W19-M17-G43-E13)

Transliterated as: mjw (consonants only)

Meaning and Translation:

male cat; tomcat

Pronunciation with reconstructed vowels in several stages of Ancient Egyptian (using IPA):

/mi(ʀ)juw/ - Old Egyptian (c. 2500 B.C.E.)

Coptic and its dialects (from 325 B.C.E. to now):

ⲉⲙⲟⲩ (emou) (Sahidic, Bohairic, Fayyumic)

ⲁⲙⲟⲩ (amou) (Sahidic)

Answer 2

The three Egyptian feline goddesses were Mafdet, Bastet and Sekhmet

they were the three most important cats in Egypt so they worship them three cats mostly

and they didn't treat the cats badly. they never forgotten about the cats to feed them and give them fresh air.

they always treated the cats nicely and kindly

Answer 3

In hieroglyphs the ancient Egyptian word for a domestic cat is written with the three consonants miw (where i represents a sound that does not exist in English). Whatever vowels were included when this word was spoken, it must be in imitation of the mewing of a cat.

Answer 4

The most well-known goddess of cats is Bastet. She is one of the 13 known cat-gods or goddesses. I am pretty sure that she is the current goddess of cats. (by the way, this was completely re-written by ezzyt)

Answer 5

The ancient Egyptian word for a domestic cat was written miw in hieroglyphs.

This represents three consonants (i represents a sound that does not exist in English) and since vowels were not written we can never know how the word was said, but it certainly comes from the "meow" sound made by cats.

Answer 6

Iwiw - possibly from the sounds that dogs make when barking

Answer 7

The ancient Egyptian name for cat is Mau .

Answer 8

I am not sure but i think it is Mei pronounced 'mee-oo'

Answer 9

The word for a mouse or rat is written in hieroglyphs as pnw + the determinative sign for an animal pelt. Since vowels were not written we can not know how this word was said.