Egyptian
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Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
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m
- boat
Inflection
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Declension of jmw (masculine)
Etymology 2
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From jm (“to lament, to wail”).
m
- lamentation, wail, cry of mourning [since the Middle Kingdom]
- (followed by n) woe unto …!
Inflection
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Declension of jmw (masculine)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmw
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jmw
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jmw
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jmm
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jm
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jmw
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Interjection
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- woe, alas
Alternative forms
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See the alternative forms under the noun above.
References
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- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 113, 456.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 77.14–77.15, 78.8–78.10
