wḥmyt
Egyptian
Etymology
Probably from wḥm (“to repeat”) + -y + -t.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɛhmiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: wehmyt
Noun
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- Uncertain [Middle Kingdom literature and 18th Dynasty literature]
- c. 2000–1900 BCE Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115), lines 34–36:
- fꜣ.t(w) ṯꜣw jr.f wḥmyt nwyt jm.f nt ḫmnw mḥ
- The wind was lifted again and again (lit. lifted, it making repetition), with a wave in it of eight cubits.
- c. 2000–1900 BCE Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115), lines 34–36:
Inflection
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥmyt
References
- Blackman, Aylward M. (1930) “Notes on Certain Passages in Various Middle Egyptian Texts” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 16, p. 68
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 67
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 344.5–344.6