ḥꜣtt

Egyptian edit

Nominalized from the feminine of ḥꜣtj (“frontal, first, best”), thus a nisba formed from ḥꜣt (“front”) +‎ -t (feminine nisba ending).

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Declension of ḥꜣtt (feminine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣtt

ḥꜣt

ḥꜣtj

[New Kingdom]

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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.

Declension of ḥꜣtt (feminine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣtt

ḥꜣtj

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