šww

Egyptian

Etymology

šwj (“to be(come) dry”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. a kind of edible plant or herb, also used medicinally in rubbing down a sick ox. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    1. hay, dry rushes

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šww  

šww šww

Noun

 m

  1. dry land [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šww  
šwwt

Descendants

  • Bohairic Coptic: ϣⲟⲩⲓⲉ (šouie)

References

  • “šw.w (lemma ID 152940)” and “šw.w (lemma ID 152920)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 430.4, 434.9–434.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 263
  • Gardiner, Alan H. (1947) Ancient Egyptian Onomastica, volume 1, pages 63*–64*
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