wrmt

== 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 === (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɛrmɛt/ Conventional anglicization: wermet === Noun === f (often in the plural) canopy, awning, coverings of a shelter or tent [Pyramid Texts] roof of a building, roofing, perhaps sometimes in particular battlements, crenellations, parapets along a roof [New Kingdom] ==== Inflection ==== ==== Alternative forms ==== === References === “wrm.t (lemma ID 47850)”, 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, 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