zt-ḥmt
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
zt (“woman”) + ḥmt (“woman”). This compound arose because the feminine ending -t in zt eventually became silent, making zt homophonous with z (“man”), so that it became necessary to add ḥmt to clarify.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌzutˈħiːmat/ → /ˌsuʔˈħiːmaʔ/ → /səˈħiːma/ → /səˈħiːmə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /zɛt hɛmɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: zet-hemet
Noun[edit]
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Inflection[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Demotic: s-ḥmt
References[edit]
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 344.