sḫmt

sḫmt

Egyptian

Etymology

sḫm (“to be powerful, to have power over”) +‎ -t. Here -t is likely the feminine nisbe suffix /-it/.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈsiχmit/ → /ˈsiχmiʔ/ → /ˈseχmə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsiχmit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈsiχmiʔ/
• (Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈseχmə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: sekhmet

Proper noun

 f

1. the goddess Sekhmet

Descendants

• → English: Sekhmet
• Old Coptic: ⲥⲁⲭⲙⲓ (sakhmi)

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 359.