Egyptian

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Etymology

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From ḥwt (enclosure) +‎ jbṯt (bird trap) in a direct genitive construction, thus “enclosure of the bird trap”.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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  1. a shrine of Thoth in Heliopolis

Alternative forms

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References

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  • Ḥw.t-jbṯ.t (lemma ID 853585)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 65.2