jmt ḥꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

Feminine form of jmj ḥꜣt (“(one) being in front or earlier in time; anterior (one)”), formed with the addition of the feminine ending -t to the nisba jmj. Equivalent to jmj (“(one) being in”) +‎ -t (feminine ending) +‎ ḥꜣt (“front”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imɛt hɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imet hat

Noun

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1. (often with suffix pronoun attached to jmt) former state of things or earlier time; also, preceding iteration, original; what was before

   Synonym: jmj ḥꜣt

   ― jmt.sn ḥꜣt ― their originals

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmt ḥꜣt  

jmt ḥꜣt

References

• “jm.jt-ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 25680)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 22.19