Egyptian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈħuːʀit/ → /ˈħuːʀiʔ/ → /ˈħuːʔə/ → /ˈħeːʔ/
Noun
f
- forepart, front
- (usually of animals) front part of the body, forepart
- (of people) forehead, brow
- bow, prow of a ship
- beginning, point of time when something starts
- opening, incipit, beginning of a text
- vanguard of an army or fleet
- place where a locality begins; outer limits
- (of people) first (among some group), chief, foremost, most distinguished one
- best, choicest (of something)
Inflection
Declension of ḥꜣt (feminine)
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ḥꜣt
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| dual
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ḥꜣtj
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| plural
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ḥꜣwt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣt
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| ḥꜣt
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ḥꜣt
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[Old Kingdom]
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Antonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- tomb [Pyramid Texts to New Kingdom]
- Synonyms: jz, ḥrt, mꜥḥꜥt
Inflection
Declension of ḥꜣt (feminine)
| singular
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ḥꜣt
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| dual
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ḥꜣtj
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| plural
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ḥꜣwt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣt
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| ḥꜣt
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ḥꜣt
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ḥꜣt
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[Old Kingdom]
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[since the Middle Kingdom]
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Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- a small unit of time, smaller than a ꜣt but larger than a ꜥnt; approximately a second [Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection
Declension of ḥꜣt (feminine)
| singular
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ḥꜣt
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| dual
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ḥꜣtj
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| plural
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ḥꜣwt
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Etymology 4
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- food [Middle Kingdom]
References
- “ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 100310)”, “ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 100280)”, “ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 100300)”, and “ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 100290)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 12.19–13.1, 19.2–24.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 160, 162
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 89, 93, 229, 376.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 142
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (2001) “From Ancient Egyptian to Coptic” in Haspelmath, Martin et al. (eds.), Language Typology and Language Universals.