shemu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
One of the three seasons of Ancient Egypt coming after Peret and before Akhet; Harvest.
Example Sentences
- "The entry for IV shemu 25 on the reverse was written on the sloping edge of the ostracon to the right of the main text."
- "Beckerath, one of those who accepted Helck’s argument, paraphrased it as follows: The accession of Amenhotep I and thus the beginning of his regnal years apparently lay on III Shemu 9 or on one of two later days."
- "Across the Nile—still wide even in Shemu season when the water was low—Ra hung hot and gold over the western fields and their harvesters."
- "According to the statement above, Petosiris was to take the oath that relinquished his alleged rights to the tomb on 19 October 559 BCE, about three weeks later (day 13 of the second month of shemu in the same year 12)."
- "He was moving from Shemu to Akhet. But what had he harvested, in this last hard year?"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: šmw