ḏd pw

Egyptian

Etymology

ḏd (“to say”) +‎ pw (“this (is)”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛd puː/
  • Conventional anglicization: djed pu

Phrase

1. introduces explanatory glosses to a text; that is to say …; it means …

References

• “ḏd-pw (lemma ID 186020)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 625.1–625.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 325