Egyptian
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Etymology
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From wsḫ (“to be(come) broad, breadth”) + -w (noun-forming suffix). For the loss of initial w- compare ꜥbw from wꜥb.
Pronunciation
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- breadth, width [Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom]
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 24–28:
- hꜣ.kw r wꜣḏ-wr m dpt nt št-mḏwtj mḥ m ꜣw.s ḥmw mḥ m sḫw.s št-mḏwtj sqd jm.s m stp n(j) kmt
- I had gone down to the sea in a boat of a hundred twenty cubits in length and forty cubits in breadth, with a hundred twenty sailors in it of the choice of Egypt.
Inflection
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Declension of sḫw (masculine)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫw
References
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- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 228.14–228.18
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 240