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Egyptian
Etymology
jꜥj (“to wash”) + -w, literally ‘washing’. The ‘breakfast’ sense is shortened from jꜥw-r (“breakfast”, literally “washing of the mouth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- breakfast
Inflection
Declension of jꜥw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥw
Noun
m
- Only used in jꜥw n jb
References
- “jꜥ.w (lemma ID 850185)”, 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, page 39.24
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
