ẖnmw-ḫw.f-wj

Egyptian

Etymology

ẖnmw (Khnum) + ḫw (shall protect, subjunctive mood of ḫwj (to protect)) + .f (he) + wj (me), thus literally ’Khnum, he shall protect me’.

Pronunciation

  • (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /çɛnmuː xuːʔɛf wi/
    • Conventional anglicization: khenmu-khu.ef-wi

Proper noun


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  1. A throne name notably borne by Khufu, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty

References

  • H̱nm.w-ḫwi̯⸗f-wj (lemma ID 400278)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 35
  • von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 52, 178
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