jwn-wr

Egyptian

Etymology

From jwn (“air, wind, seen as holding up the sky”) +‎ wr (“great”), thus ‘the Great Air’, ‘the Great Supporter (of the sky)’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːn wɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: iun-wer

Proper noun

 m

1. epithet for the god Shu [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwn-wr  

jwn-wr

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 53.9