wrmt

Egyptian

Etymology

Perhaps from a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *wurVm-. Possibly related to wrm (“to grow, to rise; flood, high point of inundation”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛrmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: wermet

Noun

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1. (often in the plural) canopy, awning, coverings of a shelter or tent [Pyramid Texts]
   • c. 2289 BCE – 2255 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Pepi I — east end of the south wall of the burial chamber, section B, line 84, spell 690.21–690.22:

     
     

     hꜣ ppj pw sḫt.n ḥr zḥ.k ḥr tp.k pšš.n stš wrmwt.k šnj[.t(j)] jn zḥ-nṯr

     O Pepi, Horus has woven his booth upon your head, Set has spread your awnings, you are surrounded by the booth of the gods.

2. roof of a building, roofing, perhaps sometimes in particular battlements, crenellations, parapets along a roof [New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of wrmt (feminine)

singular	wrmt
dual	wrmtj
plural	wrmwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrmt  

wrmwt	wrmwt
	in the plural

References

• “wrm.t (lemma ID 47850)”, 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 333.2–333.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 64
• Takács, Gábor (2019) “A new idea on the origin of πῡραμίς” in Rocznik Orientalistyczny, vol. 72, issue 1, pages 98–134