šmmt

Egyptian

Etymology

šmm (“to be hot, to be feverish”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛmɛmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: shememet

Noun

 f

1. (medicine) heat, fever

Inflection

Declension of šmmt (feminine)

singular	šmmt
dual	šmmtj
plural	šmmwt

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ϧⲉⲙⲓ (xemi)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲉⲙⲓ (hemi), ϩⲉⲓⲙⲓ (heimi)
• Lycopolitan Coptic: ϩⲙⲙⲉ (hmme)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲙⲙⲉ (hmme)

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 378.