ḫꜣꜥ ḥr wꜣt

== Egyptian == === Etymology === From ḫꜣꜥ (“to throw down, cast aside”) +‎ ḥr wꜣt (“en route, along the way”), the latter from ḥr (“on”) + wꜣt (“road”). === Pronunciation === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xɑʔɑː hɛr wɑt/ Conventional anglicization: khaa her wat === Verb === to abandon (one’s work) midway through, to leave unfinished === References === “ḫꜣꜥ (ḥr) (wꜣ.t) (lemma ID 113620)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026 Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 247.5 Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 228.12