mw

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Auhelawa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʷ/

Letter

mw (upper case Mw)

1. A letter of the Auhelawa alphabet.

Egyptian

Etymology

An origin in a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *maʔ- has been suggested, but as with other attempts at reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, academic consensus is lacking; compare Proto-Semitic *māy-. The word is a frozen plural, with an original root *m or *mj, the latter of which is supported by the phonetic use of the hieroglyph to write nmjw (“dwarf”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /muː/
  • Conventional anglicization: mu

Noun

 m

1. water (substance)
2. area covered by water, water as opposed to land or sky
3. body of water; sea, lake, river, etc.
4. rain
5. fluid, especially bodily fluid
6. semen
7. blood
8. juice or sap from a plant

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Demotic: mw
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲩ (mau), ⲙⲁⲟⲩ (maou)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲱⲟⲩ (mōou)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲁⲩ (mau)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲟⲟⲩ (moou)
  • → Ancient Greek: μῶυ (môu), μῶϋ (môü), μῶς (môs), -μοου (-moou)

References

• “mw (lemma ID 69000)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 50.7–53.1, 53.4
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 105
• Takács, Gábor (1999–2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISBN

Indonesian

Verb

mw

1. (text messaging) abbreviation of mau