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Egyptian
Glyph origin
Representing a frog.
Symbol
- Logogram for wḥm-ꜥnḫ (“(cyclically) repeating life”). [since the 18th or 19th Dynasty]
- Determinative in ḥqt (“Heqat”), and in words for frog: qrr (“frog”), ꜥbḫn (“frog”).
References
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 475
- Betrò, Maria (1995) Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., →ISBN