ḥr-m-ḥꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ m (“in”) +‎ ḥꜣt (“forepart, front”), thus ‘Horus is at the fore’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr ɛm hɑt/
- Conventional anglicization: hor-em-hat

Proper noun

m

a male given name

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 374.

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