ẖt
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Has been compared with Proto-Central Chadic *ḫway- (“stomach, belly, intestines”), which would imply a tentative Proto-Afroasiatic *ḫVwVy- (“stomach”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈçuːwat/ → /ˈçuːwaʔ/ → /ˈçeːwə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /çɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: khet
Noun[edit]
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- abdomen, belly
- (figuratively) desire for food, hunger, gluttony
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.6–1.7:
- ẖz pw ḥnt n ẖt.f swꜣ tr smḫ nf wstn ẖt m pr.sn
- He who is greedy for the sake of his belly when the time has passed is a wretch: those forget one whose belly roamed free in their house.
- location of mind and life-force
- body
- womb
- inner section of a building
- copy or summary of a document
- matter, stuff, material
Inflection[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖt
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Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Coptic: ϩⲏ (hē)
Noun[edit]
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- group of people or (especially) gods (cf. English: "a body of people")
- generation
Inflection[edit]
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖt
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Noun[edit]
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- building material
Inflection[edit]
References[edit]
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41