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Egyptian
Etymology
ḥr (“Horus”) + m (“in”) + ꜣḫt (“Akhet, place of sunrise”), thus literally meaning ‘Horus in the Akhet’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
- Harmachis or Horemakhet, a hypostasis of Horus as the deified Great Sphinx of Giza
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-m-ꜣḫt
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: Ἁρμάχις (Harmákhis)
References
- “Ḥr.w-m-ꜣḫ.t (lemma ID 107950)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 238–239
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 17.15–17.16
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.4
