ẖrt

See also: hrt, HRT, Hrt, and ḥrt

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/

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

Noun

f

possession, belonging

Inflection

Declension of ẖrt (feminine)

singular	ẖrt
dual	ẖrtj
plural	ẖrwt

References

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

Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 58

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