ẖꜣyt
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /çɑiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: khayt
Noun
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- heap of corpses
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 130–132:
- ḫpr.n r.s nn wj ḥnꜥ(w) ꜣm.nj nn wj m ḥr(j) jb.sn ꜥḥꜥ.n.j m(w)t.kw n.sn gm.n.j st m ẖꜣyt wꜥt
- But it happened while I wasn’t with them, and they burned up while I wasn’t in their midst. Then I died for them, having found them as a single heap of corpses.
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖꜣyt
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, pages 237, 298.