jwšš

See also: JWSs

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare Jewish Babylonian Aramaic לוּשׁ (lōš, to knead) and other descendants of Proto-Semitic *lawaṯ-.

Pronunciation

Noun


 m

  1. a kind of mash, gruel, or paste [Medical Papyri to Greco-Roman Period]

    jrj m jwššto make (a medicine) into a mash

Inflection

Declension of jwšš (masculine)
singular jwšš
dual jwššwj
plural jwššw

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Demotic: ꜥwš, jwš
    • Bohairic Coptic: ⲱⲟⲩϣ (ōouš)
    • Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲟⲩϣ (oouš)

References

  • jwšš (lemma ID 23110)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 58.2–58.3
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14