mswt-ḥr

Egyptian

Etymology

mswt (“birth”) +‎ ḥr (“Horus”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘birth(day) of Horus’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛsuːt ħɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: mesut-hor

Proper noun

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The second of the five epagomenal (intercalary) days (djw ḥrjw rnpt) added to the end of the year in the ancient Egyptian calendar.

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.

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