fnḫw
Egyptian
Etymology
Probably from the plural of fnḫ (“carpenter, woodcutter”), in connection with the Egyptian trade in lumber in Canaan.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /fɛnɛxuː/
- Conventional anglicization: fenekhu
Noun
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- (plural only) a people in Canaan or Syria, perhaps originally the forest-dwellers of Lebanon; Phoenicians?
- 15th century BCE, "Massacre of the Enemies", obelisk relief of the conquests of Thutmose III at Karnak, southern face (verso) of the seventh pylon [Cfeetk 57176/KIU 2105], caption:[1]
- sqr wrw n(j)w rtnw ḫꜣswt nb(w)t štꜣ(w)t tꜣw nbw fnḫw
- The smiting of the great ones of Retjenu and every hidden foreign land and every land of the Phoenicians.
- 15th century BCE, "Massacre of the Enemies", obelisk relief of the conquests of Thutmose III at Karnak, southern face (verso) of the seventh pylon [Cfeetk 57176/KIU 2105], caption:[1]
Descendants
(Possibly:)
- → Ancient Greek: Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix)
- → Ancient Greek: Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē)
- → Mycenaean Greek: 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo)
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 345.
- Tale of Sanehat in "Digital Egypt for Universities" site, UCL (appears as "fnxw")