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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive, always negated) to sleep
Inflection
Conjugation of ꜥꜥw (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜥꜥw
infinitival forms
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imperative
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infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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ꜥꜥw
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ꜥꜥww, ꜥꜥw
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ꜥꜥwt
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ꜥꜥw
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ꜥꜥw
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‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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ꜥꜥw
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ḥr ꜥꜥw
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m ꜥꜥw
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r ꜥꜥw
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suffix conjugation
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aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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aspect / mood
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active
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perfect
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ꜥꜥw.n
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consecutive
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ꜥꜥw.jn
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terminative
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ꜥꜥwt
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perfective3
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ꜥꜥw
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obligative1
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ꜥꜥw.ḫr
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imperfective
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ꜥꜥw
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prospective3
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ꜥꜥw
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potentialis1
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ꜥꜥw.kꜣ
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subjunctive
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ꜥꜥw
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verbal adjectives
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aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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active
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active
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passive
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perfect
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ꜥꜥw.n
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—
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—
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perfective
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ꜥꜥw
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ꜥꜥw
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ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥww5, ꜥꜥwy5
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imperfective
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ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥwy, ꜥꜥww5
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ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥwj6, ꜥꜥwy6
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ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥww5
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prospective
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ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥwtj7
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ꜥꜥwtj4, ꜥꜥwt4
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- Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
- Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
- Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
- Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
- Only in the masculine singular.
- Only in the masculine.
- Only in the feminine.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜥw
Noun
m
- sleep
See under the verb above.
Derived terms
Verb
- (intransitive, of the heart) to flutter
(Possibly:)
References
- “ꜥꜥw (lemma ID 35740)”, “ꜥꜥw (lemma ID 35760)”, and “ꜥꜥw (lemma ID 35750)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 169.8–169.12
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38