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ḥr-wr

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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ḥr (Horus) +‎ wr (great, elder), thus ‘the elder Horus’, ‘Horus the Elder’.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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  1. the god Horus the Elder [since the Middle Kingdom]

Alternative forms

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Descendants

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  • Ancient Greek: Ἁροῆρις (Haroêris)

References

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  • Ḥr.w-wr (lemma ID 550351)”, 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
  • 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 249–251
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 327.10
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.5