ꜥwn-jb

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜥwn (“to rob”) +‎ jb (“heart”).

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːuːn ib/
- Conventional anglicization: aun-ib

Verb

compound

to be(come) greedy

Noun

m

greedy person

Inflection

Declension of ꜥwn-jb (masculine)

singular	ꜥwn-jb
dual	ꜥwnwj-jb
plural	ꜥwnw-jb

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 281.

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