ẖrd

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /çaˈɾatʼ/ → /çaˈɾatʼ/ → /çəˈɾatʼ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /çaˈɾatʼ/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /çaˈɾatʼ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /çəˈɾatʼ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛrɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: khered

Noun

 m

1. child
   • c. 13th Dynasty, Naos of Hori, Kunsthistorisches Museum 186, Vienna:

     […] swḏ.ṯn jꜣwt.ṯn n ẖrdw.ṯn mj ḏd.ṯn […]

     [… as] you wish to bequeath your offices to your children, so you should say […]

Inflection

Declension of ẖrd (masculine)

singular	ẖrd
dual	ẖrdwj
plural	ẖrdw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖrd  

ẖrd	ẖrd

Descendants

• Demotic: ẖrtṱ
  • Bohairic Coptic: ϧⲣⲱϯ (xrōti) (only attested in the plural)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲗⲁϯ (hlati) (only attested in the plural)
  • Old Coptic: ⲣⲁⲧ (rat)

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 297–298.
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 268