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/
Noun
f
- 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
References
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995), Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58