ẖrt
Egyptian
Etymology
ẖr (“having”) + -t (“feminine nisba ending”), probably to be interpreted as a nominalized ‘reverse nisba’, i.e. as ‘that which is had’.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /çuˈɾit/ → /çuˈɾiʔ/ → /çəˈɾeʔ/ → /çəˈɾeʔ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /çɛrɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: kheret
Noun
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f
- possession, belonging
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 19:
- jp n.f tꜣ r ẖrt.f pt tꜣ ẖr st ḥr.f
- The land was accounted as his possession, and the sky and the land were under his care.
Inflection
| singular | ẖrt |
|---|---|
| dual | ẖrtj |
| plural | ẖrwt |
Derived terms
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 113, 117, 127.