qḥqḥw
Egyptian
Etymology
qḥqḥ (“to hammer (metal)”) + -w.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /kɛhkɛhuː/
- Conventional anglicization: qehqehu
Noun
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- (plural only) metalworkers [Middle Kingdom]
References
- “qḥqḥ.w (lemma ID 162160)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 67.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 281