ẖnmw-ḫw.f-wj

Egyptian

Etymology

ẖnmw (“Khnum”) +‎ ḫw (“shall protect”, subjunctive mood of ḫwj (“to protect”)) +‎ .f (“he”) +‎ wj (“me”), thus literally ’Khnum, he shall protect me’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛnmuː xuːʔɛf wi/
  • Conventional anglicization: khenmu-khu.ef-wi

Proper noun

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1. A throne name notably borne by Khufu, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty

References

• “H̱nm.w-ḫwi̯⸗f-wj (lemma ID 400278)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 35
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 52, 178