ḥr-zmꜣ-tꜣwj

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ zmꜣ (“uniting”) +‎ tꜣwj (“the Two Lands, Egypt”), thus ‘Horus who unites the Two Lands (Egypt)’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr zɛmɑ tɑuːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: hor-zema-tawi

Proper noun

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1. the god Harsomtus, a form of Horus [since the New Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-zmꜣ-tꜣwj  

ḥr-zmꜣj-tꜣwj	ḥr-zmꜣ-tꜣwj	ḥr-zmꜣ-tꜣwj

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Ἁρσομτους (Harsomtous)

References

• “Ḥr.w-zmꜣ-tꜣ.wj (lemma ID 858652)”, 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 287–288
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.9