ꜥš ḥꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜥš (“to call”) +‎ ḥꜣt (“front, bow”), thus literally ‘to call the bow’; the noun is derived with the participle of ꜥš, thus literally ‘(the one) calling the bow’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʃ hɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ash hat

Verb

 compound

1. to act as pilot of a ship

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥš ḥꜣt  

ꜥš ḥꜣt	jꜥš ḥꜣt

Noun

 m

1. pilot of a ship

Inflection

Declension of ꜥš ḥꜣt (masculine)

singular	ꜥš ḥꜣt
dual	ꜥšwj ḥꜣt
plural	ꜥšw ḥꜣt

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

References

• “ꜥš (ḥꜣ.t) (lemma ID 854378)” and “ꜥš-ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 40980)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 227.10–227.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 11, 49