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/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /çɛrɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: kheret
Inflection
Declension of ẖrt (feminine)
singular | ẖrt |
---|---|
dual | ẖrtj |
plural | ẖrwt |
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58
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