jwꜥw

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 April 2023

Etymology

jwꜥ (“to inherit”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈjawʕVw/ → /ˈjawʕVw/ → /ˈʔawʕə/ → /ˈʔawʕ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjawʕVw/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjawʕVw/

  where V represents an unknown short vowel.

• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔawʕə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔawʕ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːɑːuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iuau

Noun

 m

1. heir

   ― jwꜥ(w) n(j) jwꜥ(w) ― heir of one’s heir

   ― jwꜥ(w) zꜣ jwꜥ(w) ― heir of one’s heir (literally, “heir, son of heir”)

   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 10–13:

     jwꜥw gbb (n)syt tꜣwj mꜣ.f ꜣḫw.f swḏ.n.f n.f sšm tꜣw n mꜥr n(j) zpw jr.n.f

     […] the heir of Geb in the kingship of the Two Lands (Egypt), whose prowess he (Geb) saw, to whom he has bequeathed the guidance of the lands because of the success of the deeds he has done.

   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 17:

     psḏt ḥr ršrš jjwj zꜣ wsjr ḥr mn jb mꜣꜥ-ḫrw zꜣ ꜣst jwꜥw wsjr

     The Ennead was rejoicing: Welcome, son of Osiris, Horus, firm of heart and true of voice, son of Isis and heir of Osiris!

2. image of a dead person in the form of a statue, seen as an ‘heir’ in the sense of being left behind on the earth after his death [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of jwꜥw (masculine)

singular	jwꜥw
dual	jwꜥwwj
plural	jwꜥww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥw  

jwꜥ	jwꜥw	jꜥ	wꜥ	jwꜥ	jwꜥw	jwꜥw	jwꜥw
	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥw  

jwꜥw	jwꜥ	jwꜥw	jwꜥꜥ	ꜥꜥ	jwꜥ
[Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]	[Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
		in sense ‘image of a dead person’	in hieratic

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥꜥ, ꜥw
  • Old Coptic: ⲱⲟⲩ (ōou)

Noun

 m

1. a ring or armband given as a reward [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

Declension of jwꜥw (masculine)

singular	jwꜥw
dual	jwꜥwwj
plural	jwꜥww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥw  

ꜥwꜥw	ꜥꜥw	ꜥꜥ	jwꜥw
			abbreviation

References

• “jwꜥ.w (lemma ID 22460)” and “jwꜥ.w (lemma ID 22470)”, 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 50.11–50.16, 51.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 12–13, 40
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 243