wḥyt

See also: whyt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛhiːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: wehyt

Noun

 f

1. tribe
   • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 85–87:

     ꜥꜣ grt dmjt r.j m jj n mrwt.j rḏjt.f wj m ḥqꜣ wḥy m stp n(j) ḫꜣst.f

     Moreover what accrued to me as coming because of [his] love of me was great: his placing me as ruler of a tribe of the finest of his land.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḥyt  

wḥyw	wḥyt	wḥy

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 99, 122.