ḥnqt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛnkɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: henqet

Noun

 f

1. beer
   • The Stela of Sa-Setet/Sa-Satis (Louvre Museum 271):

     ḫꜣ m t ḥnqt kꜣw ꜣpdw n kꜣ n jmj-r […]

     Thousand of bread and beer, cattle and fowl for the ka of the overseer […]

Usage notes

Sometimes transliterated as ḥqt; the n hieroglyph, which is attested in alternative forms, Demotic, and Coptic, was probably left out for aesthetic purposes.

Inflection

Declension of ḥnqt (feminine)

singular	ḥnqt
dual	ḥnqtj
plural	ḥnqwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥnqt  

ḥqt	ḥnqt	ḥnqt

Synonyms

• (ṯnm)

Descendants

• Demotic: ḥnq, ḥnqe, ḥnqy, ḥq
  • Coptic: ϩⲛⲕⲉ (hnke) (Sahidic), ϩⲉⲙⲕⲓ (hemki) (Bohairic)

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN