English Online Dictionary. What means rw? What does rw mean?
Translingual
Symbol
rw
- (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Rwanda-Rundi.
Egyptian
Etymology
Cognate to Proto-Semitic *ʔarway- (“wild beast; lion”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ruː/
- Conventional anglicization: ru
Noun
m
- lion
- Synonym: mꜣj
Inflection
Alternative forms
See also
- 𓃭
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], 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
Welsh
Alternative forms
- (literary) wyf, ydwyf
- (colloquial) dw, w, (neologism) rydw
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rʊ/
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
Related terms
- ydw (interrogative)
- dw, w (negative)