hh
See also: HH, Hh, hH, ḥḥ, and ḫḫ
English
Noun
hh pl (plural only)
- Abbreviation of hands (one hand being four inches).
- 2007, Lesley Bayley, The Photographic Guide to Schooling Your Horse, David & Charles, →ISBN, page 127:
- For a 15.2hh–16.2hh horse the average stride length is 3.6m (12ft).
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Egyptian
FWOTD – 19 December 2020
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /hɛh/
- Conventional anglicization: heh
Noun
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- rush of hot air
- blast from a fire
- hot or burning breath, particularly of supernatural beings
- c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Unas — west wall of the antechamber, line 18–19, spell 255.2–255.4:[1]
- jd ꜣḫt n ḥr-nḫn(j) nsr n(j) hh[.s r.ṯn] ḥꜣ(j)w kꜣr ḫfḫft hh.s r.ṯn wṯzw wrt
- The place of sunrise will be censed for Horus of Nekhen. The flame of [his] fiery breath [is against you], you who are around the shrine! The gush of his fiery breath is against you, you who carry the great one!
- steam from freshly baked bread
- (figuratively) heat from the sun
- (figuratively) fever or hot breath as a symptom of disease
Inflection
Declension of hh (masculine)
singular | hh |
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dual | hhwj |
plural | hhw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hh
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hhj | hꜣhꜣ | ||||||||||
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References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 501.15–502.8
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 160
- Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume III, Providence: Brown University, PT 255.2–255.4 (Pyr. 295b–295d), W
Esperanto
Letter
hh
- A digraph used in the h-sistemo to represent ĥ.
See also
- ch, gh, jh, sh
- cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, ux