tḫw

See also: thw

Egyptian

Etymology

tḫj (“to get drunk”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛxuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: tekhu

Noun

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1. drunkard [Middle Kingdom literature]
2. epithet of two cleaner-priests (wꜥb) at the Min-festival [New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of tḫw (masculine)

singular	tḫw
dual	tḫwwj
plural	tḫww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tḫw  

tḫw	tḫw

References

• “tḫ.w (lemma ID 173160)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 325.5–325.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 301