qꜣ ḫrw

Egyptian

From qꜣ (“high”) +‎ ḫrw (“voice”), thus literally ‘high of voice’.

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑ xɛruː/
- Conventional anglicization: qa kheru

Declension of qꜣ ḫrw

	masculine	feminine
singular	qꜣ ḫrw	qꜣt ḫrw
dual	qꜣwj ḫrw	qꜣtj ḫrw
plural	qꜣw ḫrw	qꜣwt ḫrw¹, qꜣt ḫrw²
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.

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 378

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