ꜣḫf
Egyptian edit
Etymology edit
Gardiner hypothesizes a relation with ꜣḫfḫf (“to blaze (of the eyes)”), for which compare also ḫfꜣj (“to illuminate”). Federn, following a different interpretation of the word, contrarily proposes a connection with ḫfꜣt (“food”), ḫfꜣ (“to fill with, to be swelled with”), and ḫfḫf.
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑxɛf/
- Conventional anglicization: akhef
Noun edit
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- (hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “ꜣḫf (lemma ID 256)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 19.4
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 5
- Gardiner, Alan (1946) “Instruction Addressed to Kagemni and His Brethren” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 32, page 73, note 6
- Federn, Walter (1950) “Notes on the Instruction to Kagemni and His Brethren” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 36, page 48