Egyptian
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Etymology
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jww (“islands”) + ḥrjw jb (“being in the midst”, literally “being upon the heart”).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
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m pl
- (plural only) the stretches of alluvial land in the Nile delta separated by the arms of the river [Kushite and Greco-Roman Periods]
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jww-ḥrjw-jb
References
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- “Jw.w-ḥr.jw-jb (lemma ID 852714)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 47.10
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 408.9