ḥrtj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Compare ḥrt (“road, path”).

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
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine. 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)’.

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)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• “ḥr.tj (lemma ID 500280)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], 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