rww-ḏr-jꜣḫw

Egyptian

Etymology

rww (“regions, lands”, late plural variant of jw (“island”)) +‎ ḏr (“limit”) +‎ jꜣḫw (“sunlight”) in a series of direct genitive constructions, thus literally ‘regions of the limit of sunlight’, i.e. ‘all lands so far as the sun shines’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ruːʔuː d͡ʒɛr iɑxuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ruu-djer-iakhu

Noun

 m

1. whole world, whole wide world [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rww-ḏr-jꜣḫw  

rww nw ḏr-jꜣḫw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 408.8