rḫyt
See also: rhyt
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /lVˈχiːwat/ → /lVˈχiːjaʔ/ → /ləˈχeːʔə/ → /ləˈχeːʔ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /rɛxiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: rekhyt
Noun
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- the common people, as opposed to the upper strata of society
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 19:
- swḏ n.f rmt rḫyt pꜥt ḥnmmt tꜣ-mrj ḥꜣ(w)-nbw(t)
- Humankind was bequeathed to him, the commoners and patricians, the sunfolk of the Beloved Land (Egypt) and the Aegean islanders.
- royal subjects collectively
- c. 1928–1924 BCE, Stele of Wepwawetaa (Leiden V4/AP 63), lines 9–10:
… - jnk grw mm srw […] ssbq.n nswt ḫnt tꜣwj mḥ-jb.f ḫnt rḫwt.f
- I was a silent one among the officials, […] whom the king honored in front of the Two Lands (Egypt), his confidant at the fore of his subjects
- c. 1928–1924 BCE, Stele of Wepwawetaa (Leiden V4/AP 63), lines 9–10:
- (by extension) humanity
Alternative forms
editDescendants
edit- Old Coptic: ⲗϧⲏ (lxē)
References
edit- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 447.9–448.2
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN