r ḥꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

r (“concerning, regarding”) +‎ ḥꜣt (“front, beginning”).

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /jaɾˈħuːʀit/ → /jaʔˈħuːʀiʔ/ → /ʔəʔˈħuːʔəʔ/ → /ʔəˈħeːʔ/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛr ħɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: er hat

Preposition

in front of, (spatially) before
(rare) in the time preceding, (temporally) before

Adverb

to the front, forward
first, before anything else
previously, (temporally) before

References

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 23.1–23.13
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 162
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 89.

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