ḏḥwtj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /cʼVˈħawtij/ → /tʼVˈħawtij/ → /tʼəˈħawtə/ → /tʼəˈħawt/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /cʼVˈħawtij/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /tʼVˈħawtij/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /tʼəˈħawtə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /tʼəˈħawt/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛhuːti/
  • Conventional anglicization: djehuti

Proper noun

 m

1. Thoth (god)
   • c. 1800 BCE, The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (trans. Nederhof):

     ntk snnw n ḏḥwtj wḏꜥ nn rḏjt ḥr gs

     You are the equal of Thoth, who judges without being partial.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏḥwtj  

ḏḥwtj	ḏḥwtj	ḏḥwtj	ḏḥwtj	ḏḥwtj	ḏḥwtj	ḏḥwtj

Derived terms

• ḏḥwtj-ms
• ḏḥwtt

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ (thōout)
• → Phoenician: *𐤈𐤇𐤅𐤕 (*ṭḥwt)

• → Ancient Greek: Τάαυτος (Táautos)

• → Ancient Greek: Θώθ (Thṓth)
  • → Greek: Θωθ (Thoth)
  • → Latin: Thōth
    • → English: Thoth

Proper noun

 m

1. The month of Thoth

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ (thōout)
• → Ancient Greek: Θώθ (Thṓth)
  • → English: Thoth

See also

• (Middle Kingdom (Memphite) Egyptian calendar months) tḫj, mnḫt, ẖnt-ḥwt-ḥr, nḥb-kꜣw, šf-bdt, rkḥ-ꜥꜣ, rkḥ-nḏs, rnn-wtt, ḫnsw, ḫnt-ẖty-prtj, jpt-ḥmt, wp-rnpt

• (New Kingdom (Theban) Egyptian calendar months) ḏḥwtj, pꜣ-n-jpt, ḥwt-ḥr, kꜣ-ḥr-kꜣ, tꜣ-ꜥꜣbt, pꜣ-n-pꜣ-mḫrw, pꜣ-n-jmn-ḥtp, pꜣ-n-rnn-wtt, pꜣ-n-ḫnsw, pꜣ-n-jnt, jpj-jpj, mswt-rꜥ ^{(Category: egy:Egyptian calendar months)}
• (hieroglyph) 𓁟

References

• 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 109, 199, 277.
• Nederhof, Mark-Jan (2015) Westcar Papyrus, page 8