mn-kꜣw-ḥr

Egyptian

Etymology

mn (“established”) +‎ kꜣw (“life-forces”) +‎ ḥr (“Horus”) in two direct genitive constructions, thus ‘the established (one) of the life-forces of Horus’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛn kɑuː hɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: men-kau-hor

Proper noun

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1. A throne name notably borne by Menkauhor Kaiu, a pharaoh of the Fifth Dynasty

References

• “Mn-kꜣ.w-Ḥr.w (lemma ID 400284)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 40
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 55, 183