ḥr-ꜣḫtj

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ ꜣḫtj (“of the Akhet”). Later, in the New Kingdom, ꜣḫtj was reinterpreted as the dual of ꜣḫt (“Akhet”) instead of a nisba adjective derived from it, rendering a new interpretation of ḥr-ꜣḫtj as a direct genitive construction meaning ‘Horus of the Two Akhets’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr ɑxti/
  • Conventional anglicization: hor-akhti

Proper noun

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1. Horakhty, an aspect of the god Horus as the sun at dawn

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-ꜣḫtj  

ḥr-ꜣḫtj	ḥr-ꜣḫt	ḥr-ꜣḫtj	ḥr-ꜣḫtj
		[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• rꜥ-ḥr-ꜣḫtj

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲭⲁⲣⲁⲭⲧⲉ (kharakhte)

References

• “Ḥr.w-ꜣḫ.tj (lemma ID 107800)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 18.3
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.3
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 149.