mḥw

See also: mhw and mHw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛhuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: mehu

Etymology 1

Proper noun

 m

1. Lower Egypt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥw  

mḥ

Derived terms

• ꜣby-mḥw
• jt-mḥ
• tꜣ-mḥw

Etymology 2

mḥ (“to fill”) +‎ -w.

Noun

 m

1. inlay (of precious stones, etc.)
2. filling (of the mouth with food)

Inflection

Declension of mḥw (masculine)

singular	mḥw
dual	mḥwwj
plural	mḥww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥw  

mḥw

in sense ‘inlay’

Etymology 3

Noun

 m

1. Alternative form of mḥꜥw (“flax, linen”) [18th Dynasty]

References

• “mḥ.w (lemma ID 73940)” and “mḥ.w (lemma ID 850371)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 119.3, 119.22–119.23, 123.12–124
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 114