The story
- Egyptian · derived fromkm“black”
- Egyptian · borrowed fromkmt“Egypt”
- English todayKemet
Borrowed from Egyptian kmt (“Egypt”): km-m-t:O49, ultimately from Egyptian km (“black”), referring to the fertile black soil of the Nile Delta.
Words from the same roots
Egyptiankmt all →
Khem
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.