kkw

Abbreviation of English Kukẅa.

kkw

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Teke-Kukuya.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Teke-Kukuya terms

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɛkuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: keku

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1. darkness [since the Pyramid Texts]
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 12–13:

     ḫꜥ ḥr nst nt (j)t.f mj rꜥ wbn.f m ꜣḫt rdj.f šsp n ḥr(j) kkw sḥḏ.n.f šw m šwtj.fj bꜥḥ.n.f tꜣwj mj jṯn m tp-dwꜣyt

     One shining forth on the throne of his father like Ra when he rises in the Akhet, he gave light to what was covered by darkness, having brightened the air with his two plumes, having flooded the Two Lands (Egypt) like the sun disk at the break of dawn.

• Demotic: kky
  • Old Coptic:
    • → Ancient Greek: ἀκακία (akakía, “acacia”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲭⲁⲕⲓ (khaki)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲁⲕⲉ (kake)
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲕⲉⲕⲉ (keke), ⲕⲉⲕⲉⲓ (kekei)
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲕⲉⲕⲉ (keke), ⲕⲉⲕⲉⲓ (kekei)

 m

1. the god Kek or Kuk, personification of the darkness of the primeval waters [since the Coffin Texts]

• → Ancient Greek: χοῦχ (khoûkh)

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 334.