jꜥw

Egyptian

Etymology

jꜥj (“to wash”) +‎ -w, literally ‘washing’. The ‘breakfast’ sense is shortened from jꜥw-r (“breakfast”, literally “washing of the mouth”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑːuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iau

Noun

 m

1. breakfast

Inflection

Declension of jꜥw (masculine)

singular	jꜥw
dual	jꜥwwj
plural	jꜥww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥw  

jꜥw

Noun

 m

1. Only used in jꜥw n jb

References

• “jꜥ.w (lemma ID 850185)”, 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 39.24
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10