Egyptian
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Etymology
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jꜥj (“to wash”) + -w, literally ‘washing’. The ‘breakfast’ sense is shortened from jꜥw-r (“breakfast”, literally “washing of the mouth”).
Pronunciation
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m
- breakfast
Inflection
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Declension of jꜥw (masculine)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥw
m
- Only used in jꜥw n jb
References
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- “jꜥ.w (lemma ID 850185)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 39.24
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
