ḫftw
Egyptian
editEtymology
editḫft (“across from, in accordance with”) + -w (“adverbializing suffix”).
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xɛfɛtuː/
- Conventional anglicization: khefetu
Adverb
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- accordingly
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.6–2.7:
- wn.jn nfr st ḥr jb.sn r ḫt nbt ntj m tꜣ pn r ḏr.f wn.jn ꜥḥꜥ.sn ḥms.sn ḫft(w)
- Then it was more pleasing on their hearts than anything that is in this entire land. So then they conducted themselves (lit. they stood and they sat) accordingly.
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫftw
References
edit- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 88.