jw.s pw
Egyptian
Etymology
jw (imperfective relative form of jwj (“to come”)) + .s (“she, it”) + pw (“this is...”), literally ‘it is that it comes’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iuːʔɛs puː/
- Conventional anglicization: iu.es 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
Synonyms
- jw.f 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.