r ḥꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

r (“concerning, regarding”) +‎ ḥꜣt (“front, beginning”).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jiɾˈħuːʀit/ → /jiʔˈħuːʀiʔ/ → /ʔəˈħuːʔə/ → /ʔəˈħeːʔ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /jiɾˈħuːʀit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /jiʔˈħuːʀiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔəˈħuːʔə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔəˈħeːʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛr hɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: er hat

Preposition

1. in front of, (spatially) before
2. (rare) in the time preceding, (temporally) before

Adverb

1. to the front, forward
2. first, before anything else
3. previously, (temporally) before

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 23.1–23.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 162
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89.