jwnw

Egyptian

Etymology

Likely from the plural of jwn (“pillar, column”), thus literally meaning ‘Pillars’.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈjaːnaw/ → /ˈjaːnaw/ → /ʔaːnə/ → /ʔoːn/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjaːnaw/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjaːnaw/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔaːnə/; compare Akkadian transcription 𒀀𒈾 (a-na)
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʔoːn/; compare Akkadian transcription 𒌑𒉡 (ú-nu)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːnuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iunu

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

1. Heliopolis

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwnw  

jnw	jwn	jwnw	jwnw
[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
	abbreviation

Derived terms

• jwnw-šmꜥw

 

Descendants

• Demotic: jwnw
  • Coptic: ⲱⲛ (ōn)
  • → Ancient Greek: Ὠν (Ōn), Ὀνίου (Oníou)
• → Hebrew: אֹן (ʾōn), אָוֶן (ʾāwen)
• → Middle Babylonian: 𒀀𒈾 (a-na)
• → Neo-Assyrian: 𒌑𒉡 (ú-nu)

References

• “Jwn.w (lemma ID 22850)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 54
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 13
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 346.