jw.f pw

Egyptian

Etymology

jw (imperfective relative form of jwj (“to come”)) +‎ .f (“he, it”) +‎ pw (“this is...”), literally ‘it is that it comes’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːʔɛf puː/
- Conventional anglicization: iu.ef pu

Phrase

formulaic statement made in the colophon or conclusion of a literary text; that is how it goes

Synonyms

jw.s pw

References

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 376

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