Egyptian
Etymology
ꜥš (“to call”) + ḥꜣt (“front, bow”), thus literally ‘to call the bow’; the noun is derived with the participle of ꜥš, thus literally ‘(the one) calling the bow’.
Pronunciation
Verb
compound
- to act as pilot of a ship
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥš ḥꜣt
Noun
m
- pilot of a ship
Inflection
Declension of ꜥš ḥꜣt (masculine)
| singular
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ꜥš ḥꜣt
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| dual
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ꜥšwj ḥꜣt
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| plural
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ꜥšw ḥꜣt
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See under the verb above.
References
- “ꜥš (ḥꜣ.t) (lemma ID 854378)” and “ꜥš-ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 40980)”, 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, pages 227.10–227.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 11, 49