ḥr-zmꜣ-tꜣwj

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ zmꜣ (“uniting”) +‎ tꜣwj (“the Two Lands, Egypt”), thus ‘Horus who unites the Two Lands (Egypt)’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun
G5zmAN17
N17

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  1. the god Harsomtus, a form of Horus [since the New Kingdom]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-zmꜣ-tꜣwj  
bH
r		 G7zmAAmy
Y1		 tA
tA
N23 N23		 Z2
niwt		 G7
G5zmA
M127
wAD
G106
ḥr-zmꜣj-tꜣwj ḥr-zmꜣ-tꜣwj ḥr-zmꜣ-tꜣwj

Descendants
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἁρσομτους (Harsomtous)

References
  • “Ḥr.w-zmꜣ-tꜣ.wj (lemma ID 858652)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • 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 287–288
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.9
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