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Egyptian
Etymology
jw (imperfective relative form of jwj (“to come”)) + .f (“he, it”) + pw (“this is...”), literally ‘it is that it comes’.
Pronunciation
Phrase
- formulaic statement made in the colophon or conclusion of a literary text; that’s how it goes, the end
c. 1900 BCE,
The Instructions of Kagemni (
pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.8–2.9:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n rdj kꜣ-gm-n.j r jmj-r nwt ṯꜣt(j) jw.f pw
- Then Kagemni was made overseer of the city and vizier. That’s how it goes. / The end.
Usage notes
In literature of the Middle Kingdom this formula is often extended to jw.f pw ḥꜣt.f r pḥwj.fj (“that’s how it goes, its beginning to its end”); in the New Kingdom, it is instead often extended to jw.f pw m ḥtp (“that’s how it’s successfully concluded”, literally “it is that it comes in peace”).
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jw.f pw
Synonyms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 45.1–45.3
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 12
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 376.
