ḏd-ḥr

Egyptian

Etymology

ḏd (“to say”) +‎ ḥr (“Horus”), thus literally ‘Horus says’. This might be either a shortened form of the name ḏd-ḥr-jw.f-ꜥnḫ (literally “Horus says, ‘He will live’”) or an ancient misreading of a hieratic name ns-ḥr (literally “the one belonging to Horus”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛd hɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: djed-hor

Proper noun

 m

1. a male given name, Djedhor

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏd-ḥr  

ḏd-ḥr	ḏd-ḥr	ḏd-ḥr	ḏd-ḥr

Descendants

• → Akkadian:
  • Neo-Assyrian: 𒍢𒄩𒀀 (ṣi-ḫa-a /⁠ṣiḫā⁠/)
  • Neo-Babylonian: 𒍢𒄩𒀪 (ṣi-ḫa-ˀ /⁠ṣiḫaꜣ⁠/)
• → Ancient Greek: Τέως (Téōs)
• Coptic: ⲧⲁϩⲟ (taho)

References

• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 172
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 116, 282–283
• Ranke, Hermann (1935) Die ägyptischen Personennamen‎^[1], volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 411.12