# ḫt
## Egyptian
### Pronunciation

* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /xɛt/
** Conventional anglicization: khet

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

f m
* (feminine) thing, goods, possession, property
* (usually masculine) something, anything
* (feminine) food, meal

##### Alternative forms

| ḫt | jḫt | ḫt | jḫt | ꜣḫt | št | ḫt | jšt |
| | [Old Kingdom] | [Old Kingdom] | [Old Kingdom] | [New Kingdom] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] |
| | | | Only in sense “meal” | | | Only in sense “meal” |

##### Derived terms

* ꜥb ḫt
* nj zp jwt ḫt nb jm

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (reconstructed) IPA: /χit/ → /χiʔ/ → /χeʔ/ → /χeʔ/
* (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA: /χit/
* (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA: /χiʔ/
* (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA: /χeʔ/
* (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA: /χeʔ/

#### Noun

m
* wood
* tree
** c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 59–60: ḫtw ḥr gmgm tꜣ ḥr mnmnTrees were breaking, the ground was quaking.
* (plural only) timbers
* stick, staff, pole, rod
* mast
* a rod, a measure of length equivalent to 100 mḥw, or 52.5 metres. In full ḫt n nwḥ.

##### Alternative forms

ḫt :

##### Derived terms

* ꜥt nt ḫt (“orchard”)
* r ḫt (“by the authority of”)
* ḫtj (“carve”)
* ḫtw (“platform”)
* ḫtwt (“furniture”)
* ḫt n ꜥnḫ (“corn, grain”, literally “wood of life”)
* ḫt n šnj

##### Descendants

* Akhmimic Coptic: ⳉⲉ (xe)
* Bohairic Coptic: ϣⲉ (še)
* Fayyumic Coptic: ϣⲉ (še), ϣⲏ (šē)
* Lycopolitan Coptic: ϣⲉ (še)
* Old Coptic: ϣⲉ (še)
* Sahidic Coptic: ϣⲉ (še), ϣⲏ (šē), ϣⲓ (ši)

### Etymology 3
#### Preposition

* throughout

#### Noun

m
* (only in set phrases; see derived terms below) rear; what is behind or after

##### Derived terms

* jmj ḫt (“being behind or after; attendant, aftercomer”)
* m ḫt (“behind, after, as a result of; future”)
* ḫtjw tꜣ (“nomads”)
* ḫtw (“attendants”)
* ḫtḫt (“to turn back”)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

f
* fire
    Synonyms: sḏt, nsrt
** c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 54–56: šdt.j ḏꜣ sḫpr.n.j ḫt jr.n.j zj n sḏt n nṯrwI took a fire-stick, I made a fire, and I made a burnt offering to the gods.

##### Inflection
### References

* Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
* Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
* James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 38, 48, 83, 89, 105, 457.
* ↑ The verb form of the first clause is questionable. It looks like a ‘narrative’ infinitive, but this would be expected toward the beginning of a section or chapter of narrative, not in the middle, unrubricated. Other possible interpretations include a perfective relative form in a nominal sentence (not likely because an inalienable subject would be expected), a misreading by the scribe of šd.n.j, or an infinitive continuing the previous sentence rather than starting a new one: rdj.n.j r tꜣ n wr ḥr ꜥwj.j šdt.j ḏꜣ sḫpr.n.j ḫt (“… I put (some) on the ground because of the great amount on my arms and (because of) my taking of a fire-stick. I made a fire …”).