šww
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Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]šwj (“to be(come) dry”) + -w.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ʃuːʔuː/
- Conventional anglicization: shuu
Noun
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- 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:
Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šww
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Noun
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- dry land [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]
Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šww
Descendants
[edit]- Bohairic Coptic: ϣⲟⲩⲓⲉ (šouie)
References
[edit]- “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*