ꜣhmt

Egyptian

Etymology

jhm (“to mourn, to suffer”) +‎ -t. The expected form *jhmt is unattested; by the time of the earliest attestation of this word, the sounds represented by ꜣ and j had already merged.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑhmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ahmet

Noun

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1. sorrow, suffering [18th Dynasty]

References

• “jhm.t (lemma ID 850287)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 12.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 4