ẖt

See also: ḫt, ht, ␉, HT, hT, .ht, ht., and h/t

Egyptian

Etymology

Has been compared with Proto-Central Chadic *ḫway- (“stomach, belly, intestines”), which would imply a tentative Proto-Afroasiatic *ḫVwVy- (“stomach”).[1]

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈçuːwat/ → /ˈçuːwaʔ/ → /ˈçeːwə/

Noun

 f

  1. abdomen, belly
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 136–138:





      wn.k(w) r.f dmꜣ.kw ḥr ẖt.j dmj.n.j zꜣtw m bꜣḥ.f
      At that I was stretched out on my belly, having touched the ground before him.
  2. (figuratively) desire for food, hunger, gluttony
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.6–1.7:








      ẖz pw ḥnt n ẖt.f swꜣ tr smḫ nf wstn ẖt m pr.sn
      He who is greedy for the sake of his belly when the time has passed is a wretch: those forget one whose belly roamed free in their house.
  3. location of mind and life-force
  4. body
  5. womb
    1. (by extension) birth
    2. child, progeny
  6. inner section of a building
  7. copy or summary of a document
  8. matter, stuff, material

Inflection
Declension of ẖt (feminine)
singular ẖt
dual ẖtj
plural ẖwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖt  

ẖt ẖt

Derived terms
  • ẖtj (“string of an amulet”)
  • ẖt.f (“evening, p.m.”)

Descendants
  • Coptic: ϩⲏ (hē)

Noun


 f

  1. group of people or (especially) gods (cf. English: "a body of people")
  2. generation

Inflection
Declension of ẖt (feminine)
singular ẖt
dual ẖtj
plural ẖwt

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖt  
ẖt

Derived terms

Noun

 f

  1. building material

Inflection
Declension of ẖt (feminine)
singular ẖt
dual ẖtj
plural ẖwt

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41
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