wr-ḥkꜣw

Egyptian

Etymology

wr (“great”) +‎ ḥkꜣw (plural of ḥkꜣ (“magic”)) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘(the one) great of magic powers’, i.e. ‘one with great magic’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛr hɛkɑuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: wer-hekau

Noun

 m

1. epithet for various gods or the king
2. a kind of collar [Coffin Texts]

Inflection

Declension of wr-ḥkꜣw (masculine)

singular	wr-ḥkꜣw
dual	wrwj-ḥkꜣw
plural	wrw-ḥkꜣw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wr-ḥkꜣw  

wr-ḥkꜣw	wr-ḥkꜣw
	[Greco-Roman Period]
as a divine epithet

Noun

 m

1. curving serpent-headed adze or blade used as a ritual instrument in the opening of the mouth ceremony, a funerary ritual to allow the deceased to eat and drink once more

Inflection

Declension of wr-ḥkꜣw (masculine)

singular	wr-ḥkꜣw
dual	wrwj-ḥkꜣw
plural	wrw-ḥkꜣw

References

• “wr-ḥkꜣw (lemma ID 47640)” and “wr-ḥkꜣw (lemma ID 850410)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 328.3–328.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 64