ẖt

See also: ḫt, ht, ␉, HT, hT, .ht, and h/t

Egyptian

Etymology

Has been compared with Proto-Central Chadic *ḫway- (“stomach, belly, intestines”), which would imply a tentative Proto-Afroasiatic *ḫVwVy- (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈçuːwat/ → /ˈçuːwaʔ/ → /ˈçeːwə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈçuːwat/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈçuːwaʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈçeːwə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: khet

Noun

 f

1. abdomen, belly
2. (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.

3. location of mind and life-force
4. body
5. womb
   1. (by extension) birth
   2. child, progeny
6. inner section of a building
7. copy or summary of a document
8. matter, stuff, material

Inflection

Declension of ẖt (feminine)

singular	ẖt
dual	ẖtj
plural	ẖwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖt  

ẖt	ẖt

Derived terms

• ẖt.f (“evening, p.m.”)
• ẖtj (“string of an amulet”)

 

Descendants

• Coptic: ϩⲏ (hē)

Noun

 f

1. group of people or (especially) gods (cf. English: "a body of people")
2. generation

Inflection

Declension of ẖt (feminine)

singular	ẖt
dual	ẖtj
plural	ẖwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖt  

ẖt

Derived terms

• smr-ẖt

Noun

 f

1. building material

Inflection

Declension of ẖt (feminine)

singular	ẖt
dual	ẖtj
plural	ẖwt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN