jmw-mw

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmw (plural of jmj (“(one) being in”)) +‎ mw (“water”), literally “those in the water”.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m pl

1. (plural only) water animals, aquatic fauna

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmw-mw  

jmw-mw

Derived terms

• jmjw-tꜣ-mw

References

• “jm.j-mw (lemma ID 25480)”, 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 74.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18