ẖrt

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See also: hrt, HRT, Hrt, ḥrt, and ḫrt

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

 

Noun

Xr
r		 t
Y1

 f

  1. possession, belonging
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 19:
      ip
      n
      f      		 tA
      N21 Z1
      r      		 Xr
      r
      t
      f      		 pt
      tA
      Xr
      r      		 stHr Z1
      f
      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

Declension of ẖrt (feminine)
singular ẖrt
dual ẖrtj
plural ẖrwt

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58
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