mrḥt-jḥtjt

Egyptian

Etymology

mrḥt (“oil, fat”) +‎ jḥtjt (“throat”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘oil of the throat’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛrhɛt ihtit/
  • Conventional anglicization: merhet-ihtit

Noun

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1. a kind of oil used in embalming the head [Late Period]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 111.7