ꜣmmw

Egyptian

Etymology

Likely from ꜣmm (“to grasp, to clench”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑmɛmuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: amemu

Noun

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1. (medicine, hapax) gripings or spasms [Late Middle Kingdom]
   • c. 1800 BCE, Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (UC 32057), page 2, line 6:

     ḏd.ḫr.k r.s ꜣmmw p[w] n(j) jdt

     You should say regarding that: ‘It is gripings of the uterus.’

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 11.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 3