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Egyptian
Etymology
From the plural of jmj ḥꜣt (“(one) being in front or earlier in time; anterior (one)”), equivalent to jmj (“(one) being in”) + -w (plural suffix) + ḥꜣt (“front”).
Pronunciation
Noun
m pl
- (plural only) forebears, ancestors, those of times gone by
Noun
m pl
- (plural only) lesser gods who walk in front of a chief god
References
- “jm.jw-ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 500051)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 74.21
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 22.17, 22.20
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19