rww-ḏr-jꜣḫw

Egyptian

Etymology

rww (“regions, lands”, late plural variant of jw (“island”)) +‎ ḏr (“limit”) +‎ jꜣḫw (“sunlight”) in a series of direct genitive constructions, thus literally ‘regions of the limit of sunlight’, i.e. ‘all lands so far as the sun shines’.

Pronunciation

  • (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ruːʔuː d͡ʒɛr iɑxuː/
    • Conventional anglicization: ruu-djer-iakhu

Noun

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  1. whole world, whole wide world [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rww-ḏr-jꜣḫw  


rww nw ḏr-jꜣḫw

References

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