ḥrtj

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Compare ḥrt (“road, path”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: hereti

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to travel by land [Middle and New Kingdoms]

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥrtj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḥrt, geminated stem: ḥrtt

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḥrt ḥrtw, ḥrtyw, ḥrt ḥrtt, ḥrtwt, ḥrtyt ḥrt ḥrt, ḥrty ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḥrt8 ḥr ḥrt m ḥrt r ḥrt suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḥrt.n consecutive ḥrt.jn terminative ḥrtt perfective3 ḥrt obligative1 ḥrt.ḫr imperfective ḥrt, ḥrty prospective3 ḥrtw, ḥrt, ḥrty potentialis1 ḥrt.kꜣ subjunctive ḥrt, ḥrty verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḥrt.n — — perfective ḥrtw1, ḥrty, ḥrt ḥrt ḥrty, ḥrt imperfective ḥrtt, ḥrtty, ḥrttw5 ḥrtt, ḥrttj6, ḥrtty6 ḥrtt, ḥrttw5 prospective ḥrtw1, ḥrty, ḥrt, ḥrttj7 ḥrtwtj1 4, ḥrttj4, ḥrtt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrtj  

ḥrtj	ḥrtj
[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Etymology 2

ḥrt (“sky”) +‎ -j (nisba suffix), thus ‘the celestial (one)’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛrti/
  • Conventional anglicization: herti

Noun

 m

1. epithet for various gods [since the New Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥrtj  

ḥrtj	ḥrt	ḥrtj	ḥrtj
[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
	identification questionable

References

• “ḥrti̯ (lemma ID 107720)” and “ḥr.tj (lemma ID 500280)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 144.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 176
• 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, page 460