mwy

Etymology

mw (“water”) +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /muːiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: muy

Verb

1. (intransitive, of a wound) to be(come) watery, moist [Medical papyri]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mwy  

mwy

References

• “mw.y (lemma ID 69220)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 53.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 105

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *māyos, comparative form of *māros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-. Cognate with Irish mó and Scottish Gaelic mò.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /muːɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /mʊi̯/
• Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯

Adjective

mwy

1. comparative degree of mawr (“big, large”)

Noun

mwy

1. more

   Mae mwy o fwyd ar y bwrdd ’na.

   There is more food on that table.

Adverb

mwy

1. Used to form comparative constructions with adjectives.

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