ḥꜣtt
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Nominalized from the feminine of ḥꜣtj (“frontal, first, best”), thus a nisba formed from ḥꜣt (“front”) + -t (feminine nisba ending).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /hɑtɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: hatet
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Noun[edit]
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- (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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣtt
References[edit]
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], 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