mjw

Etymology 1
Most likely, from the animal’s cry (meow). Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Other hypotheses connect it to 🇨🇬 or, the former on the basis of 🇨🇬, Lamé 🇨🇬 and , 🇨🇬, Zime-Dari 🇨🇬, and the latter on the basis of 🇨🇬, Bedanga 🇨🇬. Either one of these could also be plausibly connected with the ancestor of 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) (male) cat; tomcat
 * 2) * c. 332-30, Book of the Dead of Iuefankh, chapter 17, lines 45-46 (pTurin Museo Egizio 1791):
 * "egy"

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) likeness