r ḥꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

r (“concerning, regarding”) +‎ ḥꜣt (“front, beginning”).

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jiɾˈħuːʀit/ → /jiʔˈħuːʀiʔ/ → /ʔəˈħuːʔə/ → /ʔəˈħeːʔ/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛr hɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: er hat

Preposition

in front of, (spatially) before
(rare) in the time preceding, (temporally) before

Adverb

to the front, forward
first, before anything else
previously, (temporally) before

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 23.1–23.13
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 162
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89.

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