r-pw

Egyptian

Etymology

r +‎ pw.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɛr puː/
- Conventional anglicization: er-pu

Prepositional phrase

whichever
(after a series of nouns) expresses disjunction between the preceding nouns; or.

References

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 42–43.

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