jwms

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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Univerbation of jw (sentence-initial particle) +‎ ms (surely). The phrase jw ms was so often used to begin sentences intended to persuade that it became an idiom for untruth or exaggeration.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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iwmssA2

 m

  1. exaggeration, untruth, nonsense, humbug [Middle Kingdom to Saite Period]
    miwmssA2
    m jwmsuntruthfully; with fabrication or exaggeration
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    n
    n
    f
    iwmssA2
    nn n.f jwmshe’s not lying (literally, “there is no nonsense to him”)

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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References

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  • jwms (lemma ID 22550)”, 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, pages 11, 52.7-9
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 3, 13
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 198, 456.