ꜥꜥjw
Appearance
Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps from ꜥꜥj (“to wail, jabber, be fearful?”) + -w, if not to be identified with ꜥꜥw (“sleep”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑːʔɑːiuː/
- Conventional anglicization: aaiu
Noun
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m
- Something undesirable which is to be kept away. The meaning of this term is uncertain. [Pyramid Texts]
Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜥjw
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References
[edit]- “ꜥꜥj.w (lemma ID 35730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 169.7
- ^ The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae groups this word with the same root as the former, while Allen assumes the latter interpretation; see Allen, James (2005) The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, page 163.