ꜣẖꜥt

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜣẖꜥ (“to scratch, to carve”) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑçɑːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: akhat

Noun

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1. (medicine, hapax) scratch, scratch wound
   • c. 1550 BCE, Ebers Papyrus line 96.16–96.18 (Eb 831):

     
     
     

     jr ḫꜣ.k zt pꜣ n.s hꜣt ḫt mj mw pḥwj jrj mj znf qfn ḏd.ḫr.k r.s ꜣẖꜥt pw ḥr jdt.s

     If you examine a woman for whom there has come out something like water, the end of it being like clotted blood, you should say regarding that: It is a scratch wound on her uterus.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 19.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 5
• Gardiner, Alan (1908) “Inscriptions from the tomb of Si-renpowet I” in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, vol. 45, page 131