mswt-ḥr
Egyptian
Etymology
mswt (“birth”) + ḥr (“Horus”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘birth(day) of Horus’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛsuːt ħɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: mesut-hor
Proper noun
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- The second of the five epagomenal (intercalary) days (djw ḥrjw rnpt) added to the end of the year in the ancient Egyptian calendar.
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.