ḥnꜥw

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥnꜥ (“along with”) +‎ -w (adverbializing suffix).

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛnɑːuː/
- Conventional anglicization: henau

Adverb

along with them, along with it
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 130–131:
  
  ḫpr.n r.s nn wj ḥnꜥ(w) ꜣm.nj nn wj m ḥr(j) jb.sn
  But it happened while I wasn’t with them, and they burned up while I wasn’t in their midst.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥnꜥw

ḥnꜥ

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 87.

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