ꜣhmt

Egyptian

Etymology

jhm (“to mourn, to suffer”) +‎ -t. The expected form *jhmt is unattested; by the time of the earliest attestation of this word, the sounds represented by ꜣ and j had already merged.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑhmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ahmet

Noun

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1. sorrow, suffering [18th Dynasty]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 12.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 4