rw
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Translingual
Symbol
rw
Egyptian
Etymology
Cognate to Proto-Semitic *ʔarway- (“wild beast; lion”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ruː/
- Conventional anglicization: ru
Noun
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- lion
- Synonym: mꜣj
- c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Unas — east wall of the antechamber, line 16, spell 294.2:
- zꜣw ṯw rw
- Beware of the lion.
Inflection
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rw
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See also
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 403.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 147
- Budge, E. A. Wallis (1920) “ru”, in An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, London: J. Murray, page 419
- ^ Takács, Gábor (1999–2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISBN
- ^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume III, Providence: Brown University, PT 294.2 (Pyr. 436b), W
Welsh
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Usage notes
This word is usually found in conjunction with the pronoun i and so forms a diphthong, rw i /rʊi̯/, sometimes spelt rwy.
Verb
rw (not mutable)
- (South Wales) first-person singular present affirmative colloquial of bod
- Rw i yn y car.
- I’m in the car.