ẖꜣyt

See also: ḥꜣyt and ḫꜣyt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɑiːt/
- Conventional anglicization: khayt

Noun

f

heap of corpses
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 130–132:
  
  ḫpr.n r.s nn wj ḥnꜥ(w) ꜣm.nj nn wj m ḥr(j) jb.sn ꜥḥꜥ.n.j m(w)t.kw n.sn gm.n.j st m ẖꜣyt wꜥt
  But it happened while I wasn’t with them, and they burned up while I wasn’t in their midst. Then I died for them, having found them as a single heap of corpses.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖꜣyt

ḫꜣyt

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 237, 298.

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