hn

See also: HN, hN, .hn, h*n, Hn., ḥn, ḫn, and ẖn

English

Interjection

hn

1. Used to tag a rhetorical question.
   • 1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 14, in Diamonds Are Forever:

     Up to seventeen per cent at bingo and the wheel of fortune, and fifteen to twenty per cent at the slots. Not bad for the House, hn?

See also

• hnn

Aleut

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n̥/

Letter

hn (upper case Hn)

1. A letter of the Aleut alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Egyptian

FWOTD – 19 March 2021

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: hen

Noun

 m

1. chest, box
   • c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Unas — north wall of the antechamber, line 34–36, spell 309.1–309.7:

     
     
     
     
     
     

     ḏd-mdw wnjs pw ḏḥꜣj nṯrw ḥꜣ(j) ḥwt rꜥ ms.n nḥt-nṯrw jmt ḥꜣt wjꜣ rꜥ ḥms wnjs m bꜣḥ.f j.wn wnjs hnw.f j.sḏ wnjs wḏw.f ḫtm wnjs mḏꜣwt.f hꜣb wnjs wptjw.f j.tmw wrḏ jr wnjs j.ḏdt.f n wnjs

     Recitation: This Unas is the accountant of the gods, in charge of the enclosure of Ra, having been born to Nehet-netjeru, who is in the prow of the barque of Ra. Unas will sit in front of him, Unas will open his chests, Unas will break open his decrees, Unas will seal his scrolls, Unas will send his untiring messengers, Unas will do what he says to Unas.

2. sarcophagus
3. (figuratively) body as a holder for the heart
4. (figuratively) skull as a holder for the brain

Inflection

Declension of hn (masculine)

singular	hn
dual	hnwj
plural	hnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hn  

hn

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 491.9–492.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 158