jwsw
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iuːsuː/
- Conventional anglicization: iusu
Noun
m
- balance scales, especially handheld scales [Middle Kingdom literature to Late Period]
- c. 1860–1839 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B1 (Papyrus Berlin P 3023), 353–354:
![M17 [i] i](../I/hiero_M17.png.webp)
![N35 [n] n](../I/hiero_N35.png.webp)
![W11 [g] g](../I/hiero_W11.png.webp)
![S29 [s] s](../I/hiero_S29.png.webp)
![Aa17 [sA] sA](../I/hiero_Aa17.png.webp)
![G1 [A] A](../I/hiero_G1.png.webp)


![G43 [w] w](../I/hiero_G43.png.webp)
![M23 [sw] sw](../I/hiero_M23.png.webp)
![Z7 [W] W](../I/hiero_Z7.png.webp)
![M3 [xt] xt](../I/hiero_M3.png.webp)
- jn gsꜣ jwsw
- Does a balance tilt?
- c. 1860–1839 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B1 (Papyrus Berlin P 3023), 353–354:
Inflection
Declension of jwsw (masculine)
| singular | jwsw |
|---|---|
| dual | jwswwj |
| plural | jwsww |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwsw
| jwsw | jws | ꜣwsw | ꜣwswt | ||||||||||||||||||||
| [New Kingdom] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| in papyri |
Synonyms
References
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 6, 57.18–57.19
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 284 page 132, 284.
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