ḫt

See also: ẖt, ht, ␉, HT, hT, .ht, and h/t

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: khet

Etymology 1

From earlier jḫt,

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Noun

f or m

(feminine) thing, goods, possession, property
(usually masculine) something, anything
(feminine) food, meal

Inflection

Declension of ḫt (feminine)

singular	jḫt
dual	jḫtj
plural	jḫwt

Declension of ḫt (masculine)

singular	jḫt
dual	jḫtwj
plural	jḫtw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫt

ḫt

jḫt

ḫt

jḫt

ꜣḫt

št

ḫt

jšt

[Old Kingdom]

[New Kingdom]

[Greco-Roman Period]

Only in sense “meal”

Noun

m

wood
tree
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 59–60:
  
  ḫtw ḥr gmgm tꜣ ḥr mnmn
  Trees were breaking, the ground was quaking.
(plural only) timbers
stick, staff, pole, rod
mast
a rod, a measure of length equivalent to 100 mḥw, or 52.5 metres. In full ḫt n nwḥ.

Inflection

Declension of ḫt (masculine)

singular	ḫt
dual	ḫtwj
plural	ḫtw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫt

ḫt

Derived terms

ꜥt n ḫt (“orchard”)
r ḫt (“by the authority of”)
ḫtj (“carve”)
ḫtyw^? (“platform”)
ḫtwt (“furniture”)
ḫt n ꜥnḫ (“tree of life”)
ḫt-n-šnj

Preposition

throughout

Derived terms

jmj-ḫt (“those who follow after, posterity”)
m ḫt (“after, as a result of, the future”)
ḫtjw tꜣ (“peasants”)
ḫtw (“labourers”)
ḫtḫt (“through”)

Noun

f

fire

Inflection

Declension of ḫt (feminine)

singular	ḫt
dual	ḫtj
plural	ḫwt

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 48, 83, 89, 457 page 38, 48, 83, 89, 457.
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN