ḫww
Egyptian edit
Etymology edit
From ḫwj (“to protect, to avoid, to prevent”) + -w.
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xuːʔuː/
- Conventional anglicization: khuu
Noun edit
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- what is to be avoided or precluded
- particularly, evil deeds, baseness, wrongdoing [since the Middle Kingdom]
- ritual pollution [Greco-Roman Period]
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- “ḫww (lemma ID 115150)”, 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
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 247.7–247.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 186