ḥḥ - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

Egyptian numbers (edit) | ← 1,000 | ← 100,000 | 𓁨1,000,000 (106) | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | ----------------- | | | | Cardinal: ḥḥ Ordinal: mḥ-ḥḥ | | | | |

• (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/ → /ħaħ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA(key): /ħaħ/

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA(key): /ħaħ/

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA(key): /ħaħ/

• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA(key): /ħaħ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /hɛh/

  • Conventional anglicization: heh

1. million [since the 1st Dynasty, chiefly Old Egyptian]
2. (by extension) a very large amount [chiefly Middle and Late Egyptian]

Declension of ḥḥ

| | masculine | feminine | | | ------------ | -------- | - | | singular | ḥḥ | — |

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥḥ

• ꜥm-ḥḥ

• wjꜣ-n-ḥḥw

• nḥḥ

• ḥḥ n ḥḥ

• ḥḥ n zp

• ḥḥ ḥr ḥḥ

• Coptic: ϩⲁϩ (hah)

m

1. the floodwaters of the inundation [Greco-Roman Period]

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• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 102.