ẖrt

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

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /çuˈɾit/ → /çuˈɾiʔ/ → /çəˈɾeʔ/ → /çəˈɾeʔ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /çuˈɾit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /çuˈɾiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /çəˈɾeʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /çəˈɾeʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: kheret

Noun

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1. 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

Declension of ẖrt (feminine)

singular	ẖrt
dual	ẖrtj
plural	ẖrwt

Derived terms

• ẖrt-hrw

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.