mw

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mw"

Auhelawa

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mʷ/

Letter

mw (upper case Mw)

  1. A letter of the Auhelawa alphabet.

Egyptian

Etymology

An origin in a form such as Proto-Afroasiatic *maʔ- has been suggested; compare Proto-Semitic *māy-. The word is a frozen plural, with an original root *m or *mj, the latter of which is supported by the phonetic use of the hieroglyph to write nmjw (“dwarf”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun
mw

 m

  1. water (substance)
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.5–1.6:
      iwik
      n      		 W10
      n      		 mwa
      x      		 mQ7mwfibtE8
      iwmH
      t      		 Y1rZ1mH6AwwHnZ2sssmn
      n      		 Y1
      f      		 ibZ1
      jw jkn n(j) mw ꜥḫm.f jbt jw mḥ{t}⟨w⟩ r(ꜣ) m šww smn.f jb
      For a cup of water quenches thirst, for a mouthful of šww-herbs makes the heart firm.
  2. area covered by water, water as opposed to land or sky
  3. body of water; sea, lake, river, etc.
  4. rain
  5. fluid, especially bodily fluid
    • c. 1900 BCE – 1839 BCE, Coffin Texts, version B1C (coffin of Sepi III, Cairo CG 28083) spell 755:[2]
      wr
      r      		 DY2
      a      		 t F51B
      Z2      		 mF51B
      r      		 A40D35wr
      r      		 DY2
      zp y
      D35HwAAAa2sn
      Z2      		 Ad
      Aa2      		 sn
      Z2      		 D35HASHHASHHASHHASHirmwDwwAa2Z3A
      wrḏ ꜥwt m ws(j)r nj wrḏ zpwj snwj nj ḥwꜣ.sn ꜣd.sn nj [bn.sn nj][3] jr mw ḏw
      The limbs in Osiris are weary, but won’t be weary, won’t be weary, they won’t putrefy or decay, [they] won’t [swell up, won’t] make foul fluid (literally, “evil water”).
  6. semen
    • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 16–17:
      sT
      z
      t      		 U39M22M22nwwA7
      Z2      		 n
      wr
      r
      d      		 A7
      ib Z1      		 x
      n
      p
      t fnD      		 N35B
      f      		 ir
      t
      E9      		 a
      w F44

      Sd
      d
      t D27      		 n
      x
      n      		 Xrdmwa
      a
      a      		 wD35
      r
      x
      Y1      		 bw
      f      		 imbst
      K5
      D54      		 swwa Z1
      f      		 n&xtwmXnnw
      pr
      O307
      gbb
      sṯzt nnw n(j) wrd(w)-jb ḫnpt mw.f jrt jwꜥw šdt nḫn m wꜥꜥw nj rḫ bw.f jm bst sw ꜥ.f nḫtw m ẖnw wsḫt gbb
      who raised the limpness of the weary-hearted, who took in his water (semen), who made an heir, who suckled the child in solitude where his location was unknown, who introduced him when his arm grew strong into the hall of Geb.
  7. blood
  8. juice or sap from a plant

Inflection
Declension of mw (masculine a-stem)
singular mw
dual mwwj
plural mww

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mw  
mww
mwiimw
mwW22
N35B
Z2
mwN36
N21 Z1
mwN36
N23
N35B
N36
G19Wmw
Aa56
w
mwD26
mw mwy mw mw mw mw mw mw mw mw
[Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [Medical Papyri] [Amduat] [19th Dynasty] [19th Dynasty] [Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
only attested in the Tale of
the Eloquent Peasant; possibly
to be interpreted differently
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mw  
mwiiD53
mwD52
mwD53
Z1
mwy mw mw
[Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
in the sense ‘semen’ in the sense ‘semen’ in the sense ‘semen’

Derived terms
  • mwWii
     (mwy, “to be watery”)

Descendants
  • Demotic: mw

References
  • “mw (lemma ID 69000)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 50.7–53.1, 53.4
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 105
  • Takács, Gábor (1999–2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISBN
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 12, 44
  2. de Buck, Adriaan (1956) The Egyptian Coffin Texts, volume VI, page 384 i–l
  3. Faulkner, Raymond (1977) The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts, volume 2, pages 288–289

Indonesian

Verb

mw

  1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of mau.
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