ḥꜣtt

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɑtɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: hatet

Noun

 f

1. best oil for anointing

Inflection

Declension of ḥꜣtt (feminine)

singular	ḥꜣtt
dual	ḥꜣttj
plural	ḥꜣtwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣtt  

ḥꜣt	ḥꜣtj
	[New Kingdom]

Noun

 f

1. (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.

Inflection

Declension of ḥꜣtt (feminine)

singular	ḥꜣtt
dual	ḥꜣttj
plural	ḥꜣtwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥꜣtt  

ḥꜣtj

References

• 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