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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Proper noun
m
- Lower Egypt
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥw
Derived terms
Etymology 2
mḥ (“to fill”) + -w.
Noun
m
- inlay (of precious stones, etc.)
- filling (of the mouth with food)
Inflection
Declension of mḥw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥw
Etymology 3
Noun
m
- Alternative form of mḥꜥw (“flax, linen”)
References
- “mḥ.w (lemma ID 73940)” and “mḥ.w (lemma ID 850371)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, 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
