šww

Egyptian

Etymology

šwj (“to be(come) dry”) +‎ -w.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃuːʔuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: shuu

Noun

 m

1. a kind of edible plant or herb, also used medicinally in rubbing down a sick ox. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. hay, dry rushes

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šww  

šww	šww

Noun

 m

1. dry land [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šww  

šwwt

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ϣⲟⲩⲓⲉ (šouie)

References

• “šw.w (lemma ID 152940)” and “šw.w (lemma ID 152920)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 430.4, 434.9–434.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 263
• Gardiner, Alan H. (1947) Ancient Egyptian Onomastica, volume 1, pages 63*–64*