Isis vs Iwis - What's the difference?
isis | iwis |
(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic.
(UK, Oxford) The River Thames.
(astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
(rare) (female)
* 1924 , Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light :
* 1995 , Iain Banks, Whit :
Certainly, surely, indeed.
*, Bk.V:
*:Thou art welcome iwys , for thou sekyst aftir sorow!
*1842 , Thomas Macaulay, Horatius :
*:Iwis , in all the Senate / There was no heart so bold.
*1890 , James Russell Lowell, Poetical Works :
*:God vanished long ago, iwis , A mere subjective synthesis
As a proper noun isis
is a sunni jihadist group active in iraq and syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state.As an adverb iwis is
certainly, surely, indeed.isis
English
(wikipedia Isis)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
- 'Beloved Isis ,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'