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Where does “ḥknw” come from?

ḥknw (Egyptian) comes from Egyptian -w, from Proto-Afroasiatic -u.

ḥknw (Egyptian): praise; one of the seven sacred oils used in...

Definitions

  1. praise; one of the seven sacred oils used in...

Ancestry of “ḥknw”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Egyptian-wUsed to form the masculine plural forms of nouns...
2Proto-Afroasiatic-u—
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