jwf

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈjuwfuw/ → /ˈjuwfuw/ → /ˈʔuʔfəʔ/ → /ʔøʔf/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjuwfuw/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjuwfuw/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔuʔfəʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔøʔf/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːf/
  • Conventional anglicization: iuf

Noun

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1. flesh
2. (as food) meat
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:

     (j)m ꜣtw r jwf r gs skn šzp dj.f n.k

     Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you.

Descendants

• Demotic: jwf
  • Coptic: ⲁϥ (af) (Bohairic), (Sahidic)
  • Coptic: ⲁⲁϥ (aaf) (Sahidic), (Fayyumic)
  • Coptic: ⲉϥ (ef) (Akhmimic), (Lycopolitan), (Dialect K)

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwf  

jf

[Old Kingdom]

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 279, 378.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 74