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Egyptian
Etymology
Nominalized from the feminine of ḥꜣtj (“frontal, first, best”), thus a nisba formed from ḥꜣt (“front”) + -t (feminine nisba ending).
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- best oil for anointing
Inflection
Declension of ḥꜣtt (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣtt
Noun
f
- (nautical) prow rope
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 3–5:
- šzp ḫrpw ḥw mjnt ḥꜣtt rḏj.t(j) ḥr tꜣ
- The mallet has been taken, the mooring post has been struck, and the prow rope is set on land.
Inflection
Declension of ḥꜣtt (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣtt
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 28.5–28.12
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 162