hwhw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /huːhuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: huhu

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (hapax) to scurry, to hasten
   • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version B (pBerlin 3022 and pAmherst n-q) lines 228–229:

     rdwj.j ḥr hwhw

     my feet scurrying

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 485.1
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 158