Egyptian
Etymology
Compare Jewish Babylonian Aramaic לוּשׁ (lōš, “to knead”) and other descendants of Proto-Semitic *lawaṯ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- a kind of mash, gruel, or paste [Medical Papyri to Greco-Roman Period]
- ― jrj m jwšš ― to make (a medicine) into a mash
Inflection
Declension of jwšš (masculine)
| singular
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jwšš
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| dual
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jwššwj
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| plural
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jwššw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwšš
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