ḫftw
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
ḫft (“across from, in accordance with”) + -w (“adverbializing suffix”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xɛfɛtuː/
- Conventional anglicization: khefetu
Adverb[edit]
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- accordingly
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.6–2.7:
- wn.jn nfr st ḥr jb.sn r ḫt nbt ntj m tꜣ pn r ḏr.f wn.jn ꜥḥꜥ.sn ḥms.sn ḫft(w)
- Then it was more pleasing on their hearts than anything that is in this entire land. So then they conducted themselves (lit. they stood and they sat) accordingly.
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫftw
References[edit]
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 88.