jw.f pw
Egyptian
Etymology
jw (imperfective relative form of jwj (“to come”)) + .f (“he, it”) + pw (“this is...”), literally ‘it is that it comes’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iuːʔɛf puː/
- Conventional anglicization: iu.ef pu
Phrase
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- formulaic statement made in the colophon or conclusion of a literary text; that’s how it goes, The End
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.8–2.9:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n rdj kꜣ-gm-n.j r jmj-r nwt ṯꜣt(j) jw.f pw
- Then Kagemni was made overseer of the city and vizier. That’s how it goes. / The End.
Synonyms
- jw.s pw
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 376.