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Where does “ḥmt” come from?

ḥmt (Egyptian) comes from Egyptian -t, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic -t.

ḥmt (Egyptian): woman; wife; copper

Definitions

  1. woman; wife; copper

Ancestry of “ḥmt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Egyptian-tUsed to form feminine singular forms of nouns; An...
2Proto-Afro-Asiatic-t—
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