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From ḥwt(“enclosure”) + nṯr(“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘house of the god’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
The following descendant has been proposed, but Vycichl disputes it on phonetic grounds (compare the regular development of Sahidic Copticⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ(noute) from nṯr):
