ḥr-wr

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ wr (“great, elder”), thus ‘the elder Horus’, ‘Horus the Elder’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr wɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: hor-wer

Proper noun

 m

1. the god Horus the Elder [since the Middle Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-wr  

ḥr-wr	ḥr-wr	ḥr-wr	ḥr-wrw	ḥr-wr	ḥr-wr	ḥr-wr	ḥr-wr	ḥr-wr	ḥr-wr

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Ἁροῆρις (Haroêris)

References

• “Ḥr.w-wr (lemma ID 550351)”, 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
• Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 249–251
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 327.10
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.5