jw.s pw

Egyptian

Etymology

jw (imperfective relative form of jwj (“to come”)) +‎ .s (“she, it”) +‎ pw (“this is...”), literally ‘it is that it comes’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːʔɛs puː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iu.es pu

Phrase

1. formulaic statement made in the colophon or conclusion of a literary text; that is how it goes

Synonyms

• jw.f pw

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 376.