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”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ruː/
  • Conventional anglicization: ru

Noun

 m

1. lion

   Synonym: mꜣj

   • c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Unas — east wall of the antechamber, line 16, spell 294.2:

     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	rw

See also

• 𓃭

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], 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^[2], London: J. Murray, page 419

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.

Related terms

• ydw (interrogative)
• dw, w (negative)