jjwj

Egyptian

Etymology

Dual form of the perfective active participle of jj (“to come”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iʔiuːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: iiwi

Interjection

1. welcome (greeting upon someone’s arrival)
   • 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!

Usage notes

Syntactically this word functions as an adjectival predicate. It is often followed by m ḥtp (“in peace”), sometimes with an intervening pronoun referring to the person being welcomed or dative referring to the person doing the welcoming.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jjwj  

jjw	jjwj

Synonyms

• jj.tj

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 337.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 38.1–38.4