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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- corpse
c. 1859 BCE – 1813 BCE,
The Loyalist Teaching (Stele of Sehetepibre/Cairo CG 20538 Verso) line 19:
[1]- nn jz n sbj ḥr ḥm.f jw ẖꜣt.f m qmꜣ n mw
- There is no tomb for a rebel against His Majesty; his corpse is thrown to the water.
Inflection
Declension of ẖꜣt (feminine)
Derived terms
Noun
f
- body of marsh water or lagoon in the Nile delta
Inflection
Declension of ẖꜣt (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖꜣt
Romanization
ẖꜣt
- Alternative transliteration of ḫꜣyt.
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 359.9–359.20, 360.7–360.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 200
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 121.
- ^ H. O. Lange and H. Schäfer (1908) Grab- und Denksteine des Mittleren Reichs im Museum von Kairo, volume II, page 149
