rww-ḏr-jꜣḫw
Egyptian
editEtymology
editrww (“regions, lands”, late plural variant of jw (“island”)) + ḏr (“limit”) + jꜣḫw (“sunlight”) in a series of direct genitive constructions, thus literally ‘regions of the limit of sunlight’, i.e. ‘all lands so far as the sun shines’.
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ruːʔuː d͡ʒɛr iɑxuː/
- Conventional anglicization: ruu-djer-iakhu
Noun
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- whole world, whole wide world [Greco-Roman Period]
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of rww-ḏr-jꜣḫw
References
edit- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 408.8