jꜥḥ

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare Proto-Semitic *warḫ- (“moon, month”) and Proto-Berber *a-ʔyur.

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjaʕħuw/ → /ˈjaʕħuw/ → /ˈjaʕħə/ → /jaʕħ/

Proper noun

 m

  1. the moon
  2. the god Iah, personification of the moon

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥḥ  
jꜥḥ jꜥḥ jꜥḥ jꜥḥ jꜥḥ jḥ jḥ jꜥḥ jꜥḥ
[Pyramid Texts] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Late Period]
abbreviation abbreviation abbreviation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: jꜥḥ
    • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲟⲟϩ (ooh)
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲟϩ (ioh)
    • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲁϩ (aah), ⲁϩ (ah)
    • Old Coptic: ⲱϩ (ōh), ⲓⲱϩ (iōh)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲟϩ (ooh), ⲟϩ (oh), ⲱϩ (ōh)
      • → Egyptian Arabic: أيوحا m

References

  • “jaḥ (lemma ID 21810)”, “Jaḥ (lemma ID 850333)”, and “jaḥ (lemma ID 21810)”, 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 42.7–42.9
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 11
  • Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 1: ꜣ–y, Leuven: Peeters, page 146
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