jꜥnw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑːnuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ianu

Noun

 m

1. woe, grief [since Middle Kingdom literature]
2. lament, wail, cry of lamentation
3. greetings, cry of respect (+ n: to (someone))

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥnw  

jꜥnw	jꜥnw	ꜥnw
		[Greco-Roman Period]

Interjection

1. a cry of lamentation: woe, alas (+ n: woe to (someone))
2. a cry of reverential greeting: greetings, hail, praise (+ n: to (someone))

   ― jꜥnw n.k ― hail to you!; praise to you!

Alternative forms

See under the noun above.

References

• “jꜥn.w (lemma ID 21750)”, 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, pages 41.10–41.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 11
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 208.