r ḥꜣt
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
r (“concerning, regarding”) + ḥꜣt (“front, beginning”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /jiɾˈħuːʀit/ → /jiʔˈħuːʀiʔ/ → /ʔəˈħuːʔə/ → /ʔəˈħeːʔ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɛr hɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: er hat
Preposition[edit]
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Adverb[edit]
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- to the front, forward
- first, before anything else
- previously, (temporally) before
References[edit]
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 23.1–23.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 162
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89.