jwsw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːsuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iusu

Noun

 m

1. balance, scales, especially handheld scales [Middle Kingdom literature to Late Period]
   • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B1 (pAmherst 1 and pBerlin 3023) lines 353–354:

     jn gsꜣ jwsw

     Does a balance tilt?

Inflection

Declension of jwsw (masculine)

singular	jwsw
dual	jwswwj
plural	jwsww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwsw  

jwsw	jws	ꜣwsw	ꜣwswt
			[New Kingdom]
			in hieratic

Synonyms

• mḫꜣt

References

• “jws.w (lemma ID 23100)”, 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 6, 57.18–57.19
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 132, 284.