jmw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imuː/
- Conventional anglicization: imu

Etymology 1

Noun

m

boat, ship in general [Old Kingdom to New Kingdom]
shipload

Inflection

Declension of jmw (masculine)

singular	jmw
dual	jmwwj
plural	jmww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmw

jm

jmw

jm

jꜣmw

[Old Kingdom]

[First Intermediate Period]

[New Kingdom]

abbreviation

Etymology 2

From jm (“to lament, to wail”) +‎ -w.

Noun

m

lamentation, wail, cry of mourning [since the Middle Kingdom]
(followed by n) woe unto …!

Inflection

Declension of jmw (masculine)

singular	jmw
dual	jmwwj
plural	jmww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmw

jmw

jmm

jm

[Middle Kingdom]

[18th Dynasty]

[New Kingdom]

[Late Period]

in hieratic

Interjection

woe, alas

Alternative forms

See the alternative forms under the noun above.

Etymology 3

From jmj (“being in”) +‎ -w.

Noun

m

contents of an abscess or boil; pus [Medical papyri]

References

“jmw (lemma ID 25990)”, “jm.w (lemma ID 25980)”, and “jm.w (lemma ID 25970)”, 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 76.1, 77.14–77.15, 78.8–78.10
(with first glyph misread) Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 130.5
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 18, 20–21
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 113, 456.