sḫm-tꜣwj

Egyptian

Etymology

sḫm (“power, cult image, incarnation”) +‎ tꜣwj (“the Two Lands, Egypt”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘Power of the Two Lands’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxɛm tɑuːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: sekhem-tawi

Proper noun

 m

1. epithet for various gods, especially Wepwawet

References

• “sḫm-Tꜣ.wj (lemma ID 853642)”, 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 (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volumes 244.10–244.11, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN