wꜣw
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wɑuː/
- Conventional anglicization: wau
Noun
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- (water) wave
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 39–41:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n.j rḏj.kw r jw jn wꜣw n(j) wꜣḏ-wr
- Then I was put on an island by a wave of the sea.
Inflection
editReferences
edit- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 210.