jꜥnw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun
ia
n		 nwWA2Z3

 m

  1. woe, grief [since Middle Kingdom literature]
  2. lament, wail, cry of lamentation
  3. greetings, cry of respect (+ n: to (someone))

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥnw  
ia
n		 nwWA2
ia
n		 nw Z1
Y1
a
n		 nw
W		 A2
jꜥnw jꜥnw ꜥnw
[Greco-Roman Period]

Interjection
ia
n		 nwWA2Z3
  1. a cry of lamentation: woe, alas (+ n: woe to (someone))
  2. a cry of reverential greeting: greetings, hail, praise (+ n: to (someone))

Alternative forms

See under the noun above.

References
  • “jꜥn.w (lemma ID 21750)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 41.10–41.12
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 11
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 208.
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