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Where does “wpw” come from?
wpw (Egyptian) comes from Egyptian -w, from Proto-Afroasiatic -u.
wpw
(Egyptian): except
Definitions
except
Ancestry of “wpw”, 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 “wpw”
wpw ḥr
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