ḫw.f-wj
Egyptian
Etymology
ḫw (“protects”) + .f (“he”) + wj (“me”), thus literally ’He protects me’; longer versions of the name reveal that ‘he’ is the god Khnum.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /χawˈjafwij/ → /χawˈwafwij/ → /χəwˈwaf(w)/[1][2]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xuːʔɛf wi/, /xuːfuː/
- Conventional anglicization: khu.ef-wi, khufu
Proper noun
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- A throne name notably borne by Khufu, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫw.f-wj
Derived terms
Descendants
- → English: Khufu
- → Ancient Greek: Χέοψ (Khéops), Σοῦφις (Soûphis), Σώϋφις (Sṓüphis), Σαῶφις (Saôphis), Σοφέ (Sophé)[3]
References
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 52, 178
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 82
- ^ Gundacker, Roman (2015) “The Chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties according to Manetho’s Aegyptiaca” in Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom, page 114–115, provides the final vowel but disagrees with Loprieno in some details of the word’s subsequent development: where Loprieno considers the semivowels preceding the tonic /a/ to have ultimately reduced to glottal stops, Gundacker posits that /j/ assimilated to the preceding /w/, which was preserved.
- ^ Gundacker, Roman (2015) “The Chronology of the Third and Fourth Dynasties according to Manetho’s Aegyptiaca” in Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom, page 114–115