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Egyptian
Etymology
ḥꜣtj (“frontal”) + ꜥ (“arm”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘frontal of arm’, i.e. ‘one whose arm is in front’.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- high official
Inflection
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 34, 132.