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Egyptian
Etymology
ꜣd (“to be aggressive or raging”) + -w (agent nominalizer).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- crocodile
Inflection
Declension of ꜣdw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣdw
Noun
m
- aggressive or raging person, aggressor
- ― ḫsf ꜣdw ― to fend off someone raging
Inflection
Declension of ꜣdw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣdw
References
- “ꜣd.w (lemma ID 353)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 24.11, 24.20–24.21
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 6–7
