jmw-mw

Egyptian

Etymology

From jmw (plural of jmj (“(one) being in”)) +‎ mw (“water”), literally “those in the water”.

Pronunciation

Noun
 m pl
  1. (plural only) water animals, aquatic fauna

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmw-mw  
jmw-mw

Derived terms

References

  • “jm.j-mw (lemma ID 25480)”, 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, page 74.7
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18
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