nḫ

See also: NH, Nh, nH, n.h., N.H., and nḥ

Egyptian

From nḫj (“to lament”).

Declension of nḫ (perfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	nḫ	nḫt
dual	nḫwj	nḫtj
plural	nḫw	nḫwt¹, nḫt²
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 84.

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