ḥwt-nṯr

Egyptian

Edfu, 200s BC

Etymology

From ḥwt (“enclosure”) +‎ nṯr (“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘house of god’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ħawitˈnaːcaɾ/ → /ħajiʔˈnaːtaʔ/ → /ħəjəˈnaːta/ → /ħəjəˈnoːtə/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /huːt nɛt͡ʃɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: hut-netjer

Noun

f

temple

Inflection

Declension of ḥwt-nṯr (feminine)

singular	ḥwt-nṯr
dual	ḥwtj-nṯr
plural	ḥwwt-nṯr

Derived terms

Descendants

The following descendant has been proposed, but Vycichl disputes it on phonetic grounds (compare the regular development of Sahidic Coptic ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ (noute) from nṯr):

>? Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲉⲛⲉⲉⲧⲉ (heneete)

References

Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN

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