mḥyt
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /maˈħiːwVt/ → /maˈħiːjVʔ/ → /maˈħeːʔə/ → /məˈħeːʔ/[1][2]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛhiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: mehyt
Inflection
Declension of mḥyt (feminine)
| singular | mḥyt |
|---|---|
| dual | mḥytj |
| plural | mḥywt |
Descendants
- Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲙϩⲏ (mhē)
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /maˈħuːwVt/ → /maˈħuːjVʔ/ → /məˈħuːʔə/ → /məˈħeːʔ/[1]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛhiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: mehyt
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: -μχης (-mkhēs)[1]
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 121.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 125.6–125.8, 127.7–127.9
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
- Peust gives an analogous reconstruction, but reconstructs the stressed vowel as /u/ rather than /i/; see Peust, Carsten (1999) Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language, Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 149
- “Nib-maḥe PN”, in Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus
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