sḫw

See also: SHW

Egyptian

Etymology

From wsḫ (“to be(come) broad, breadth”) +‎ -w (noun-forming suffix). For the loss of initial w- compare ꜥbw from wꜥb.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. breadth, width [Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom]
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 24–28:











      hꜣ.kw r wꜣḏ-wr m dpt nt št-mḏwtj mḥ m ꜣw.s ḥmw mḥ m sḫw.s št-mḏwtj sqd jm.s m stp n(j) kmt
      I had gone down to the sea in a boat of a hundred twenty cubits in length and forty cubits in breadth, with a hundred twenty sailors in it of the choice of Egypt.

Inflection

Declension of sḫw (masculine)
singular sḫw
dual sḫwwj
plural sḫww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sḫw  



sḫ sḫw sḫw
[New Kingdom]

References

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