jwnw
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Egyptian
Etymology
Likely from the plural of jwn (“pillar, column”), thus literally meaning ‘Pillars’.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjaːnaw/ → /ˈjaːnaw/ → /ʔaːnə/ → /ʔoːn/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iuːnuː/
- Conventional anglicization: iunu
Proper noun
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m./f. topo.
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: jwnw
- → Hebrew: אֹן (ʾōn), אָוֶן (ʾāwen)
- → Middle Babylonian: 𒀀𒈾 (a-na)
- → Neo-Assyrian: 𒌑𒉡 (ú-nu)
References
- “Jwn.w (lemma ID 22850)”, 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 54
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 346.
- ^ Edel, Elmar (1976) Ägyptische Ärzte und ägyptische Medizin am hethitischen Königshof: Neue Funde von Keilschriftbriefen Ramses’ II. aus Boğazköy, Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Geisteswissenschaften, Vorträge. G 205, →ISBN, page 19
- ^ Neo-Assyrian toponyms, Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, University of Pennsylvania