ḥqꜣ-jmj-pr

Egyptian

Etymology

From ḥqꜣ (“ruler”) +‎ jmt-pr (“estate, bequest, will”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘ruler of the bequest’, in reference to the kingship mythologically bequeathed from Geb to Osiris and thereby to Horus. The term jmt-pr appears in its typical Greco-Roman Period form jmj-pr.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛkɑ imi pɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: heqa-imi-per

Proper noun

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1. an epithet of the god Horus [Greco-Roman Period]
2. an epithet of the king [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “ḥqꜣ-jm.jt-pr (lemma ID 862147)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 74.4–74.5