Egyptian
Etymology
zt (“woman”) + ḥmt (“woman”). This compound arose because the feminine ending -t in zt eventually became silent, making zt homophonous with z (“man”), so that it became necessary to add ḥmt to clarify.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˌzutˈħiːmat/ → /ˌsuʔˈħiːmaʔ/ → /səˈħiːma/ → /səˈħiːmə/
Noun
f
- woman
Inflection
Declension of zt-ḥmt (feminine)
| singular
|
zt-ḥmt
|
| dual
|
ztj-ḥmtj
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| plural
|
zwt-ḥmwt
|
Descendants
- Demotic Egyptian: s-ḥmt
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ (shime)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲥϩⲓⲙⲓ (shimi)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲥϩⲓⲙⲓ (shimi), ⲥⲓⲙⲓ (simi), ⲥⲓⲙⲉⲓ (simei)
- Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ (shime)
- Old Coptic: ⲥⲓⲙⲉ (sime)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲥϩⲓⲙⲉ (shime), ⲥⲉⲓⲙⲉ (seime), ⲥϩⲉ (she)
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 344.