wꜣḏ-wr

Egyptian

Etymology

wꜣḏ (“green”) +‎ wr (“great”), thus literally ‘The Great Green’.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑd͡ʒ wɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: wadj-wer

Proper noun

m

the Sea, encompassing both the Red and Mediterranean Seas
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 39–41:
  
  ꜥḥꜥ.n.j rḏj.kw r jw jn wꜣw n(j) wꜣḏ-wr
  Then I was put on an island by a wave of the sea.

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 146.

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