jwꜣ
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iuːɑ/
- Conventional anglicization: iua
Noun
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- ox, especially as a sacrificial animal
- (in the plural) long-horned cattle in contrast to wnḏw (“short-horned cattle”)
- (with following genitive of an antelope, gazelle, ibex, etc.) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
Inflection
editAlternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜣ
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Derived terms
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Inflection
editReferences
edit- “jwꜣ (lemma ID 22160)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 49.9–49.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 12
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 111.