ẖn
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== Egyptian ==
=== Pronunciation ===
(modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /çɛn/
Conventional anglicization: khen
=== Verb ===
(intransitive) to approach (+ m or n: to approach (someone or some place)) [since the Middle Kingdom]
==== Inflection ====
==== Alternative forms ====
==== Descendants ====
Akhmimic Coptic: ⳉⲛⲁⲛ (xnan)
Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲱⲛ (hōn)
Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲱⲛ (hōn)
=== Noun ===
m
tent [since the Pyramid Texts]
==== Inflection ====
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=== References ===
“ẖn (lemma ID 123110)” and “ẖn (lemma ID 123090)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.5.0, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning […] and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils […], 2004–23 April 2026
Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 368.1–368.8, 373.9–373.18
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 201
Loprieno, Antonio (1995), Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48