jwtjw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːtiuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iutiu

Etymology 1

From the plural of jwtj (“which is not”).

Noun

 m pl

1. (plural only) the dead

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwtjw  

jwtjw

Etymology 2

Noun

 m

1. putrefaction, corruption, what is decayed [since the Middle Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwtjw  

jwtjw	jwtjw
	[Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “jw.tjw (lemma ID 23150)” and “jwt.w (lemma ID 23190)”, 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, page 48.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14