jmw-ḥꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

From the plural of jmj ḥꜣt (“(one) being in front or earlier in time; anterior (one)”), equivalent to jmj (“(one) being in”) +‎ -w (plural suffix) +‎ ḥꜣt (“front”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imuː hɑt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imu-hat

Noun

 m pl

1. (plural only) forebears, ancestors, those of times gone by

Noun

 m pl

1. (plural only) lesser gods who walk in front of a chief god [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “jm.jw-ḥꜣ.t (lemma ID 500051)”, 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, page 74.21
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 22.17, 22.20
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 19