ḥḥ
EgyptianEdit
𓁨 1,000,000 |
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Cardinal: ḥḥ Ordinal: mḥ-ḥḥ |
PronunciationEdit
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ħaħ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ħɛħ/
- Conventional anglicization: heh
NumeralEdit
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- million [since the 1st Dynasty, chiefly Old Egyptian]
- (by extension) a very large amount [chiefly Middle and Late Egyptian]
InflectionEdit
Declension of ḥḥ
masculine | feminine | |
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singular | ḥḥ |
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Alternative formsEdit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥḥ
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ḥḥ | ḥḥ | ḥḥ | ḥḥ | ḥḥ | |||||||||||||
[since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [Greco-Roman Period, occasionally earlier] |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Coptic: ϩⲁϩ (hah)
NounEdit
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- the floodwaters of the inundation [Greco-Roman Period]
ReferencesEdit
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 102.
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN