kkw
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈkikjVw/ → /ˈkikjVw/ → /ˈkekjə/ → /ˈkeki/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /kɛkuː/
- Conventional anglicization: keku
Noun
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m
- darkness [since the Pyramid Texts]
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 12–13:
- ḫꜥ ḥr nst nt (j)t.f mj rꜥ wbn.f m ꜣḫt rdj.f šsp n ḥr(j) kkw sḥḏ.n.f šw m šwtj.fj bꜥḥ.n.f tꜣwj mj jṯn m tp-dwꜣyt
- One shining forth on the throne of his father like Ra when he rises in the Akhet, he gave light to what was covered by darkness, having brightened the air with his two plumes, having flooded the Two Lands (Egypt) like the sun disk at the break of dawn.
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of kkw
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kkw | kk |
Descendants
edit- Demotic: kky
Proper noun
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m
Descendants
edit- → Ancient Greek: χοῦχ (khoûkh)
References
edit- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 334.
- ^ Edel, Elmar (1961) “Neues Material zur Herkunft der auslautenden Vokale -ⲉ und -ⲓ im Koptischen”, in Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, volume 86, number 1,