ḥꜣtj

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Egyptian

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    Cardinal: wꜥ
    Ordinal: tpj, ḥꜣtj
    Adverbial: zp wꜥ
    Distributive: wꜥ wꜥ

Etymology

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From ḥꜣt (front) +‎ -j (nisba ending).

The noun is traditionally regarded as simply a nominalized use of this nisba adjective, thus literally ‘the frontal (organ)’. However, note the different developments in Coptic. Some have instead suggested an Indo-European source for the noun; compare Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr.

Pronunciation

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  • (adjective): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ħuˈʀiːtij//ħuˈʀiːtij//ˈħwiːtə//ħwiːt/
 
  • (noun): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈħuʀtVj//ˈħuʀtVj//ˈħuːtə//ˈħeːt/

Adjective

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HAt
t y
  1. frontal
  2. (Late Egyptian) first
    Synonym: (Old and Middle Egyptian) tpj

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Noun

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HAt
t y
F34

 m

  1. heart
  2. mind, where thought and emotions are experienced
  3. (by extension) a jewel

Usage notes

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More so than jb, this word is used to refer to the heart as a physical organ; however, the two are often interchangeable.

Inflection

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Synonyms

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  • (heart, mind): jb

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References

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  • Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 68
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81.
  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language[1], Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 262
  3. ^ Osing, Jürgen (1976) Die Nominalbildung des Ägyptischen, Mainz/Rhein: von Zabern, →ISBN, pages 316, 438, 458, 459