wḥmyt

Egyptian

Etymology

Probably from wḥm (“to repeat”) +‎ -y +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛhmiːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: wehmyt

Noun

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1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Middle Kingdom literature and 18th Dynasty literature]
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 34–36:

     fꜣ.t(w) ṯꜣw jr.f wḥmyt nwyt jm.f nt ḫmnw mḥ

     The wind was lifted again and again (literally, “lifted, it making repetition”), with a wave in it of eight cubits.

   1. repetition
   2. repeated howling

Inflection

Declension of wḥmyt (feminine)

singular	wḥmyt
dual	wḥmytj
plural	wḥmywt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥmyt  

wḥmmyt

References

• Blackman, Aylward M. (1930) “Notes on Certain Passages in Various Middle Egyptian Texts” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 16, p. 68
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 67
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 344.5–344.6