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Egyptian
Etymology
-w (“masculine plural ending”) + -j (“dual ending”).
Pronunciation
Suffix
- Used to form regular masculine dual forms of nouns and adjectives
- Attaches to the adjective in an adjectival predicate to give its clause admirative exclamatory force: How very… ! How… !
c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE,
Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 21:
- bnrwj mr(w)t.f ḫr.n
- How sweet is the love of him among us!
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of -wj
The dual suffix is also often represented by writing the phonetic or determinative glyph twice, e.g. tꜣwj:
References
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 39–40, 70–71, 337.
