mwy

Egyptian

Etymology

mw (“water”) +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mwy  
mwiimw
mwy

References
  • “mw.y (lemma ID 69220)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

mwy

  1. comparative degree of mawr (“big, large”)

Noun

mwy

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

Adverb

mwy

  1. Used to form comparative constructions with adjectives.

Mutation
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.
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