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Egyptian
Etymology
ꜣḫ (“papyrus thicket”) + bjt(j) (“king of Lower Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘papyrus thicket of the king of Lower Egypt’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m./f. topo.
- a mythological island, Chemmis, where Horus was said to have been reared in secret, most often identified with a lake site near Buto
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Derived terms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 13.3–13.4
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 4
