ḥḥ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hh"

Egyptian

Egyptian numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000	←  100,000	𓁨 1,000,000 (106)
Cardinal: ḥḥ     Ordinal: mḥ-ḥḥ

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ħaħ/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ħaħ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ħaħ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ħaħ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: heh

Numeral

1. million [since the 1st Dynasty, chiefly Old Egyptian]
2. (by extension) a very large amount [chiefly Middle and Late Egyptian]

Inflection

Declension of ḥḥ

	masculine	feminine
singular	ḥḥ	—

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥḥ  

ḥḥ	ḥḥ	ḥḥ	ḥḥ	ḥḥ
		[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period, occasionally earlier]

Derived terms

• ꜥm-ḥḥ
• wjꜣ-n-ḥḥw
• nḥḥ
• ḥḥ n ḥḥ
• ḥḥ n zp
• ḥḥ ḥr ḥḥ

 

Descendants

• Coptic: ϩⲁϩ (hah)

Noun

 m

1. the floodwaters of the inundation [Greco-Roman Period]

References

• 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 Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN