ḫmtw
Egyptian
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Cardinal: ḫmtw Ordinal: ḫmtnw Adverbial: ḫmtw zpw Distributive: ḫmtw ḫmtw Fractional: r ḫmtw |
Etymology
editPerhaps related to Guanche amiat.
Pronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈχamtaw/ → /ˈχamtaw/ → /ˈχamtə/ → /ˈχamt/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xɛmɛtuː/
- Conventional anglicization: khemetu
Numeral
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Inflection
editḫmtw is the first Egyptian numeral to belong to an autonomous numeral part of speech (originally a singular noun) rather than being an adjective.
Declension of ḫmtw
masculine | feminine | |
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singular | ḫmtw |
ḫmtt |
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫmtw
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ḫmtw |
- 𒄩𒂔𒌈 (ḫa-am-tu4 /ḫamtu/) (14th BCE cuneiform)
Derived terms
edit- ḫmt (“triple (verb)”)
- ḫmt-rw (“three-quarters”)
Descendants
edit- Demotic: ḫmtw
References
edit- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 71
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN