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Egyptian
Etymology
From sḫnj (“to alight, to bring or come to rest”).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- resting place (for the shades of the dead)
Inflection
Declension of sḫn (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫn
Derived terms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 254.7
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 242
