ḥḏ tꜣ
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ḥḏ (“be(come) white”) + tꜣ (“land”), literally ‘the land becomes white’, with ḥḏ as a non-attributive relative (nominal/emphatic) form, effectively making the clause adverbial in meaning.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /hɛd͡ʒ tɑ/
- Conventional anglicization: hedj ta
Phrase
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References
[edit]- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 385–386.