mw(“water”) +-y.
- (intransitive, of a wound) to be(come)watery,moist[Medical papyri]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings ofmwy
- “mw.y (lemma ID 69220)”, inThesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag,→ISBN,page53.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962)A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute,→ISBN,page105
FromProto-Celtic*māyos, comparative form of*māros, fromProto-Indo-European*meh₁-. Cognate withIrishmó andScottish Gaelicmò.
mwy
- comparative degree ofmawr(“big, large”)
mwy
- more
Maemwy o fwyd ar y bwrdd ’na.- There ismore food on that table.
mwy
- Used to formcomparative constructions with adjectives.
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
