sḫmt

Egyptian

Etymology

sḫm (“to be powerful, to have power over”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

f

the goddess Sekhmet

Descendants

→ Ancient Greek: Σεκμέτ (Sekmét)
→ English: Sekhmet

References

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 359

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