ḫftt

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḫft (“facing, opposite”) +‎ -t (“feminine nisba ending”); the noun is simply a nominalized use of the nisba adjective.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛfɛtɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: khefetet

Adjective

f

feminine singular of ḫftj

Noun

f

(female) enemy

Inflection

Declension of ḫftt (feminine)

singular	ḫftt
dual	ḫfttj
plural	ḫftwt

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 40 page 38, 40.

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