kmt

kmt

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, Caribbean, MLE, MTE) Initialism of kissing my teeth: used to express disapproval, annoyance, or frustration.

   Alternative form: KMT

   • 2020 October 13, @_OsoSandro11, Twitter‎^[1]:

     I get 4 spliff max out a 3.5 kmt [image caption]

From km (“black”) +‎ -t, interpreted as a reference to the fertile black soil of the Nile Delta.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɛmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: kemet

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1. Egypt, the Nile Valley
   • c. 1850 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version R (pRamesseum A/Berlin 10499 recto), 1.2–1.3, trans. Allen:

     m.t wj m hꜣt r kmt r jnt ꜥqw jm n ẖrdw.j

     Look, I am going down to Egypt to get provisions there for my children.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kmt  

kmt	kmt

• r n kmt

• Demotic: kmj
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲭⲏⲙⲓ (khēmi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲏⲙⲉ (kēme)
  • → Ancient Greek: Χημία (Khēmía)

 f

1. the Egyptians

 f

1. a type of jar

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN