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Where does “jwḥw” come from?
jwḥw (Egyptian) comes from Egyptian -w, from Proto-Afroasiatic -u.
jwḥw
(Egyptian): inundation
Definitions
inundation
Ancestry of “jwḥw”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Egyptian
-w
Used to form the masculine plural forms of nouns...
2
Proto-Afroasiatic
-u
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