mwy
Egyptian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /muːiː/
- Conventional anglicization: muy
Verb edit
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- (intransitive, of a wound) to be(come) watery, moist [Medical papyri]
Alternative forms edit
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mwy
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References edit
- “mw.y (lemma ID 69220)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 53.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 105
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Irish mó and Scottish Gaelic mò.
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /muːɨ̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /mʊi̯/
- Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯
Adjective edit
mwy
- comparative degree of mawr (“big, large”)
Noun edit
mwy
- more
- Mae mwy o fwyd ar y bwrdd ’na.
- There is more food on that table.
Adverb edit
mwy
- Used to form comparative constructions with adjectives.
Mutation edit
| Welsh mutation | |||
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| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| mwy | fwy | unchanged | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||