šnꜥw

Egyptian

Etymology

šnꜥ (“to detain”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛnɑːuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: shenau

Noun

 m

1. forced labor camp or workshop, labor establishment, often for captives and slaves [since the Old Kingdom]
2. storehouse, magazine, storage space, especially for food (+ genitive: belonging to (someone), for storing (something))
3. (Late Egyptian, rare) barracks
4. (Late Egyptian) tomb

Inflection

Declension of šnꜥw (masculine)

singular	šnꜥw
dual	šnꜥwwj
plural	šnꜥww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šnꜥw  

šnꜥ	šnꜥ	šnꜥ	šnꜥw	šnꜥw	šnꜥw	šnꜥ	šnꜥ
						[since the Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• pr-šnꜥ

References

• “šnꜥ.w (lemma ID 155900)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 507.12–508.25
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 269