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English
Interjection
hn
- Used to tag a rhetorical question.
1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 14, in Diamonds Are Forever:Up to seventeen per cent at bingo and the wheel of fortune, and fifteen to twenty per cent at the slots. Not bad for the House, hn?
See also
Aleut
Pronunciation
Letter
hn (upper case Hn)
- A letter of the Aleut alphabet, written in the Latin script.
Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- chest, box
c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE,
Pyramid Texts of Unas — north wall of the antechamber, line 34–36, spell 309.1–309.7:
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- ḏd-mdw wnjs pw ḏḥꜣj nṯrw ḥꜣ(j) ḥwt rꜥ ms.n nḥt-nṯrw jmt ḥꜣt wjꜣ rꜥ ḥms wnjs m bꜣḥ.f j.wn wnjs hnw.f j.sḏ wnjs wḏw.f ḫtm wnjs mḏꜣwt.f hꜣb wnjs wptjw.f j.tmw wrḏ jr wnjs j.ḏdt.f n wnjs
- Recitation: This Unas is the accountant of the gods, in charge of the enclosure of Ra, having been born to Nehet-netjeru, who is in the prow of the barque of Ra. Unas will sit in front of him, Unas will open his chests, Unas will break open his decrees, Unas will seal his scrolls, Unas will send his untiring messengers, Unas will do what he says to Unas.
- sarcophagus
- (figuratively) body as a holder for the heart
- (figuratively) skull as a holder for the brain
Inflection
Declension of hn (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hn
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 491.9–492.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 158
- ^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume III, Providence: Brown University, PT 309.1–309.7 (Pyr. 490a–491d), W