jwnw

Egyptian

Etymology

Likely from the plural of jwn (“pillar, column”), thus literally meaning ‘Pillars’.

Pronunciation

 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjaːnaw/ → /ˈjaːnaw/ → /ʔaːnə/ → /ʔoːn/

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

  1. Heliopolis

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwnw  

jnw jwn jwnw jwnw
[Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
abbreviation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: jwnw
    • Coptic: ⲱⲛ (ōn)
    • → Ancient Greek: Ὠν (Ōn), Ὀνίου (Oníou)
  • → Hebrew: אֹן (ʾōn), אָוֶן (ʾāwen)
  • → Middle Babylonian: 𒀀𒈾 (a-na)
  • → Neo-Assyrian: 𒌑𒉡 (ú-nu)

References

  • “Jwn.w (lemma ID 22850)”, 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, page 54
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 346.
  1. ^ Edel, Elmar (1976) Ägyptische Ärzte und ägyptische Medizin am hethitischen Königshof: Neue Funde von Keilschriftbriefen Ramses’ II. aus Boğazköy, Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Geisteswissenschaften, Vorträge. G 205, →ISBN, page 19
  2. ^ Neo-Assyrian toponyms, Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, University of Pennsylvania
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