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

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: sekhu

Noun

 m

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

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 228.14–228.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 240