Egyptian
Etymology
Perhaps from a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *wurVm-. Possibly related to wrm (“to grow, to rise; flood, high point of inundation”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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- (often in the plural) canopy, awning, coverings of a shelter or tent [Pyramid Texts]
c. 2289 BCE – 2255 BCE,
Pyramid Texts of Pepi I — east end of the south wall of the burial chamber, section B, line 84, spell 690.21–690.22:
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- hꜣ ppj pw sḫt.n ḥr zḥ.k ḥr tp.k pšš.n stš wrmwt.k šnj[.t(j)] jn zḥ-nṯr
- O Pepi, Horus has woven his booth upon your head, Set has spread your awnings, you are surrounded by the booth of the gods.
- roof of a building, roofing, perhaps sometimes in particular battlements, crenellations, parapets along a roof [New Kingdom]
Inflection
Declension of wrmt (feminine)
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wrmt
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| dual
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wrmtj
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| plural
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wrmwt
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wrmt
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wrmwt
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References
- “wrm.t (lemma ID 47850)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 333.2–333.3
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 64
- Takács, Gábor (2019) “A new idea on the origin of πῡραμίς” in Rocznik Orientalistyczny, vol. 72, issue 1, pages 98–134
- ^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume VI, Providence: Brown University, PT 690.21–690.22 (Pyr. 2100a–2100c), P