ḥrt

ḥr (“upon, atop”) +‎ -t (feminine nisba ending), thus ‘(the one) being atop’. Some early writings of the sense ‘sky’ use determinatives that perhaps instead suggest a connection with the verb ḥrj (“to be distant”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: heret

 f

1. feminine singular of ḥrj

 f

1. sky [since the Pyramid Texts]

   Synonyms: pt, nwt

2. sky as the dwelling-place of gods and the dead king
3. (figuratively, with following genitive) temple, earthly dwelling-place (of a god) [Greco-Roman Period]
4. temple roof [Greco-Roman Period]
5. upper side, upper surface [Medical papyri]

In the Late Period this word is often found in the dual with unchanged meaning.

• m ḥrt
• n ḥrt
• ḥrtj

 f

1. (female) supervisor, boss (+ genitive: of (wet nurses, harem women, a household, etc.)) [since the Middle Kingdom]
2. epithet for the queen [18th Dynasty]
3. epithet for the goddess Isis [Greco-Roman Period]

• ḥrt-pr

 f

1. inundation of the Nile [Greco-Roman Period]
2. water in general [Greco-Roman Period]

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: heret

 f

1. rock-cut tomb [since the Middle Kingdom]

   Synonyms: jz, ḥꜣt, mꜥḥꜥt

2. particularly, one of the rock-cut royal tombs of the New Kingdom, such as those at the Valley of the Kings [since the New Kingdom]
3. necropolis (of a particular city) [since the Middle Kingdom]
4. afterworld, realm of the dead [Theban royal tombs]

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ -t (feminine suffix).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: horet

 f

1. female Horus, Horus-goddess, Horet
2. epithet for Isis or Hathor
3. conventional term introducing the serekh name of female pharaohs

• ḥrt-nḏt-jt.s
• ḥrt-nbw

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: heret

 f

1. (rare) road, path, specifically one by land as opposed to water [since the Pyramid Texts]

Traditionally linked as a descendant, but rejected as such by Černý:

• >? Coptic: ϩⲓⲏ (hiē), (plural) ϩⲓⲟⲟⲩⲉ (hiooue)

• “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107670)”, 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
• “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107680)”, 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
• “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107630)”, 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
• “ḥr.jt (lemma ID 108380)”, 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
• “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107650)”, 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
• “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107640)”, 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
• “Ḥr.wt (lemma ID 107610)”, 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
• “ḥr.t (lemma ID 107660)”, 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 124.10–125.3, 142.3–142.7, 143.9–143.10, 143.13–143.19, 144.2–144.6, 144.8–144.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 175
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