𓇰
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Egyptian
Glyph origin
Representing the sky with an uncertain object suspended from it, originally 𓇱 (
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with the sky as drill-weight. In later versions from the 18th Dynasty the object looks similar to the lower half of a broken scepter
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Symbol
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- Logogram for grḥ (“night”).
- Determinative for words relating to darkness, obscurity, and night, as in grḥ, wḫ (“night”), kkw (“darkness”), jḫḫw (“dusk”).
References
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 485
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 183
- Betrò, Maria (1995) Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., →ISBN