ꜣjs

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑis/
  • Conventional anglicization: ais

Noun

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1. (medicine) viscera in general (both of humans and of animals), including the brain
2. (derogatory) scum, contemptible person; a term of abuse

Inflection

Declension of ꜣjs (masculine)

singular	ꜣjs
dual	ꜣjswj
plural	ꜣjsw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣjs  

ꜣjs	ꜣjs	ꜣs	ꜣs	ꜣs	js	js
				[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ꜣjs n ḏnnt

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 1, 5
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 2.10–2.11, 20.10–20.13
• Gardiner, Alan (1948) “The First Two Pages of the Wörterbuch” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 34, p. 16
• Iversen, Erik (1947) “Some remarks on the terms and ” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 33, p. 48