jꜥḥ

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare Proto-Semitic *warḫ- (“moon, month”) and Proto-Berber *a-ʔyur.

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈjaʕħuw/ → /ˈjaʕħuw/ → /ˈjaʕħə/ → /jaʕħ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjaʕħuw/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjaʕħuw/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjaʕħə/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /jaʕħ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑːh/
  • Conventional anglicization: iah

Proper noun

 m

1. the moon
2. the god Iah, personification of the moon

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜥḥ  

jꜥḥ	jꜥḥ	jꜥḥ	jꜥḥ	jꜥḥ	jḥ	jḥ	jꜥḥ	jꜥḥ
			[Pyramid Texts]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]
		abbreviation					abbreviation	abbreviation

Derived terms

• jꜥḥ wr
• jꜥḥ-ms
• jꜥḥ-ḥtp

 

Descendants

• Demotic: jꜥḥ
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲟⲟϩ (ooh)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲟϩ (ioh)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲁϩ (aah), ⲁϩ (ah)
  • Old Coptic: ⲱϩ (ōh), ⲓⲱϩ (iōh)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲟϩ (ooh), ⲟϩ (oh), ⲱϩ (ōh)
    • → Egyptian Arabic: أيوحا m

References

• “jaḥ (lemma ID 21810)”, “Jaḥ (lemma ID 850333)”, and “jaḥ (lemma ID 21810)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 42.7–42.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 11
• Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 1: ꜣ–y, Leuven: Peeters, page 146