rw

See also: RW and .rw

Translingual

Symbol

rw

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Rwanda-Rundi.

Egyptian

Etymology

Cognate to Proto-Semitic *ʔarway- (“wild beast; lion”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun
rw
Z1

 m

  1. lion
    Synonym: mꜣj
    • c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Unas — east wall of the antechamber, line 16, spell 294.2:[2]
      zAwTwrw
      Z1
      zꜣw ṯw rw
      Beware of the lion.

Inflection
Declension of rw (masculine)
singular rw
dual rwwj
plural rww

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rw  
rw
rwrw
rw rw

See also

References
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 403.8
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 147
  • Budge, E. A. Wallis (1920) “ru”, in An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary‎, London: J. Murray, page 419
  1. Takács, Gábor (1999–2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISBN
  2. Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume III, Providence: Brown University, PT 294.2 (Pyr. 436b), W

Welsh

Alternative forms
  • (literary) wyf, ydwyf
  • (colloquial) dw, w, (neologism) rydw

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /rʊ/

Usage notes

This word is usually found in conjunction with the pronoun i and so forms a diphthong, rw i /rʊi̯/, sometimes spelt rwy.

Verb

rw (not mutable)

  1. (South Wales) first-person singular present affirmative colloquial of bod
    Rw i yn y car.
    I’m in the car.
  • ydw (interrogative)
  • dw, w (negative)
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