Clipping ofEnglishRwanda-Rundi orabbreviation ofRwanda-RundiIkinyarwanda.
rw
- (international standards)ISO 639-1language code forRwanda-Rundi.
Cognate toProto-Semitic*ʔarway-(“wild beast; lion”).[1]
m
- lion
- Synonym:mꜣj
Alternative hieroglyphic writings ofrw
- Erman, Adolf;Grapow, Hermann (1928),Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag,→ISBN,page403.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962),A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute,→ISBN,page147
- Budge, E. A. Wallis (1920), “ru”, inAn Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary[2], London: J. Murray, page419
- ^Takács, Gábor (1999–2007),Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, Leiden: Brill,→ISBN,→ISBN
- ^Allen, James (2013),A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume III, Providence: Brown University,PT 294.2 (Pyr. 436b), W
This word is usually found in conjunction with the pronouni and so forms a diphthong,rw i/rʊi̯/, sometimes speltrwy.
rw (not mutable)
- (South Wales)first-personsingularpresentaffirmativecolloquial ofbod
Rw i yn y car.- I’m in the car.
- ydw(interrogative)
- dw,w(negative)
