Egyptian
FWOTD – 3 April 2023
Etymology
jwꜥ (“to inherit”) + -w.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjawʕVw/ → /ˈjawʕVw/ → /ˈʔawʕə/ → /ˈʔawʕ/
Noun
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- 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!
- 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)
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jwꜥw
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jwꜥwwj
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jwꜥww
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥw
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jwꜥw
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jꜥ
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wꜥ
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jwꜥ
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jwꜥw
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jwꜥw
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jwꜥw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥw
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jwꜥ
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jwꜥw
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jwꜥꜥ
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ꜥꜥ
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jwꜥ
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in sense ‘image of a dead person’
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in hieratic
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Descendants
Noun
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- a ring or armband given as a reward [18th Dynasty]
Inflection
Declension of jwꜥw (masculine)
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jwꜥw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥw
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ꜥꜥw
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ꜥꜥ
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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