mwy

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Egyptian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mw (water) +‎ -y.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mwWii
  1. (intransitive, of a wound) to be(come) watery, moist [Medical papyri]

Alternative forms[edit]

References[edit]

  • mw.y (lemma ID 69220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 53.5
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 105

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Irish and Scottish Gaelic .

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mwy

  1. comparative degree of mawr (big, large)

Noun[edit]

mwy

  1. more
    Mae mwy o fwyd ar y bwrdd ’na.
    There is more food on that table.

Adverb[edit]

mwy

  1. Used to form comparative constructions with adjectives.

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mwy fwy unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.