ḫmnnw

Egyptian

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Cardinal: ḫmnw Ordinal: ḫmnnw Adverbial: ḫmnw zpw Distributive: ḫmnw ḫmnw Fractional: r ḫmnw

ḫmn-, root of ḫmnw +‎ -nw.

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛmɛnnuː/
- Conventional anglicization: khemennu

Declension of ḫmnnw

	masculine	feminine
singular	ḫmnnw	ḫmnnwt
dual	ḫmnnwwj	ḫmnnwtj
plural	ḫmnnww	ḫmnnwwt¹, ḫmnnwt²
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 103.

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