jw.f pw

jw (imperfective relative form of jwj (“to come”)) +‎ .f (“he, it”) +‎ pw (“this is...”), literally ‘it is that it comes’.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːʔɛf puː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iu.ef pu

1. formulaic statement made in the colophon or conclusion of a literary text; that’s how it goes, The End
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.8–2.9:

     ꜥḥꜥ.n rdj kꜣ-gm-n.j r jmj-r nwt ṯꜣt(j) jw.f pw

     Then Kagemni was made overseer of the city and vizier. That’s how it goes. / The End.

• jw.s pw

• 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.