ḫndw

Egyptian

Tutankhamun’s

Etymology

ḫnd (“to tread”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛnduː/
  • Conventional anglicization: khendu

Noun

 m

1. throne or other seat of a king or a god, including stools, litters, and seats in a boat [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. stairway [since the New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of ḫndw (masculine)

singular	ḫndw
dual	ḫndwwj
plural	ḫndww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫndw  

ḫndw	ḫnd

References

• “ḫnd.w (lemma ID 119540)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 314.4–314.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 195