ḫt

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From earlier jḫt, .

Noun

 f, m

1. (feminine) thing, goods, possession, property
2. (usually masculine) something, anything
3. (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]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
			Only in sense “meal”			Only in sense “meal”

Etymology 2

Noun

 m

1. wood
2. tree
3. (plural only) timbers
4. stick, staff, pole, rod
5. mast
6. 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

Terms derived from ḫt

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

Etymology 3

Preposition

1. throughout

Derived terms

Terms derived from ḫt

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

ḫtw (“labourers”) ḫtḫt (“through”)

Etymology 4

Noun

 f

1. fire

Inflection

Declension of ḫt (feminine)

singular	ḫt
dual	ḫtj
plural	ḫwt

References

• Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 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