Etymograph

English

Hyksos

Hyksos comes from Ancient Greek Ὑκσώς, and goes back to Egyptian ḥqꜣ-ḫꜣst ‘foreign ruler, Hyksos’.

  1. Egyptianc. 3200 BCE–600 CEḥqꜣ-ḫꜣst‘foreign ruler, Hyksos’
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὙκσώςHuksṓs
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1981Hyksos

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Egyptianc. 3200 BCE–600 CEḥqꜣ-ḫꜣst‘foreign ruler, Hyksos’
  2. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὙκσώςHuksṓs
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1981Hyksos

Earliest quotation: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology: “But in the New Kingdom, after the invasion of…”

A compound of ḥqꜣ ‘ruler’ + ḫꜣst ‘foreign land’

Every English word from Egyptian ḥqꜣ-ḫꜣst

Today it means

noun A mixed group of Asiatic people from Western Asia who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt and initiating the Second Intermediate Period.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Egyptian ḥqꜣ-ḫꜣst / Hyksos

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