ḥꜣtt

Nominalized from the feminine of ḥꜣtj (“frontal, first, best”), thus a nisba formed from ḥꜣt (“front”) +‎ -t (feminine nisba ending).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɑtɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: hatet

1. best oil for anointing

1. (nautical) prow rope
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 3–5:

     šzp ḫrpw ḥw mjnt ḥꜣtt rḏj.t(j) ḥr tꜣ

     The mallet has been taken, the mooring post has been struck, and the prow rope is set on land.

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 28.5–28.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 162