jwšš

See also: JWSs

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare Jewish Babylonian Aramaic לוּשׁ (lōš, “to knead”) and other descendants of Proto-Semitic *lawaṯ-.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːʃɛʃ/
  • Conventional anglicization: iushesh

Noun

 m

1. a kind of mash, gruel, or paste [Medical Papyri to Greco-Roman Period]

   ― jrj m jwšš ― to make (a medicine) into a mash

Inflection

Declension of jwšš (masculine)

singular	jwšš
dual	jwššwj
plural	jwššw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwšš  

jwšꜣ

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥwš, jwš
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲱⲟⲩϣ (ōouš)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲟⲩϣ (oouš)

References

• “jwšš (lemma ID 23110)”, 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 58.2–58.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14