ḥḏ tꜣ

Egyptian

Etymology

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

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛd͡ʒ tɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: hedj ta

Phrase

1. at dawn

References

• 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.