ḫftw
Egyptian
Etymology
ḫft (“across from, in accordance with”) + -w (“adverbializing suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xɛfɛtuː/
- Conventional anglicization: khefetu
Adverb
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- accordingly
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.6–2.7:
- wn.jn nfr st ḥr jb.sn r ḫt nbt ntj m tꜣ pn r ḏr.f wn.jn ꜥḥꜥ.sn ḥms.sn ḫft(w)
- Then it was more pleasing on their hearts than anything that is in this entire land. So then they conducted themselves (lit. they stood and they sat) accordingly.
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫftw
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References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 88.