wꜣw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: wau

Noun

 m

1. (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

Declension of wꜣw (masculine)

singular	wꜣw
dual	wꜣwwj
plural	wꜣww

References

• 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.