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Where does “wꜣw” come from?
wꜣw (Egyptian) comes from Egyptian -w, from Proto-Afroasiatic -u.
wꜣw
(Egyptian): far away
Definitions
far away
Ancestry of “wꜣw”, 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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Words derived from “wꜣw”
m wꜣw
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