mḥꜥw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛhɑːuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: mehau

Noun

 m

1. flax [since the Old Kingdom]
2. linen; thread or cloth made of flax fiber

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥꜥw  

mḥꜥ	mḥꜥ	mḥꜥ	mḥꜥ
[Old Kingdom]	[Coffin Texts]	[Coffin Texts]	[Middle Kingdom]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mḥꜥw  

mḥꜥjw	mḥw	mḥꜥw	mḥꜥ	mḥꜥyw	mḥyw	mꜥḥtw
[since the 18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]

Descendants

• Demotic: mḥ, mḥe
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲁϩⲉ (mahe)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲁϩⲓ (mahi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲁϩⲉ (mahe)

References

• “mḥꜥ.w (lemma ID 450266)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 121.4–121.7, 121.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 114
• van der Molen, Rami (2000) A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
• Deines, Hildegard von, Grapow, Hermann (1959) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Drogennamen, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, →ISBN, pages 281–282