ḏḥwtt

Egyptian

Etymology

ḏḥwtj (“Thoth”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /cʼVˈħawtat/ → /tʼVˈħawtaʔ/ → /tʼəˈħawta/ → /tʼəˈħawtə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /cʼVˈħawtat/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /tʼVˈħawtaʔ/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /tʼəˈħawta/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /tʼəˈħawtə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛhuːtɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: djehutet

Proper noun

 f

1. the festival of Thoth, on which offerings were presented to the dead

Inflection

Declension of ḏḥwtt (feminine)

singular	ḏḥwtt
dual	ḏḥwttj
plural	ḏḥwtwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏḥwtt  

ḏḥwtt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 606.3