Egyptian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- north wind
Inflection
Declension of mḥyt (feminine)
| singular
|
mḥyt
|
| dual
|
mḥytj
|
| plural
|
mḥywt
|
Descendants
- Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲙϩⲏ (mhē)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
- the goddess Mehyt
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: -μχης (-mkhēs)[1]
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 121.
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 125.6–125.8, 127.7–127.9
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Loprieno, Antonio (1995), Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 39
- ^ Peust gives an analogous reconstruction, but reconstructs the stressed vowel as /u/ rather than /i/; see Peust, Carsten (1999), Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language[1], Göttingen: Peust und Gutschmidt Verlag GbR, page 149
- ^ “Nib-maḥe PN”, in Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus[2]