dwꜣw

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Egyptian

Etymology

dwꜣ (“to rise early, to praise”) +‎ -w (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

dwAAwhrw
H_SPACE

 m

  1. early morning
  2. tomorrow

Inflection

Declension of dwꜣw (masculine)
singular dwꜣw
dual dwꜣwwj
plural dwꜣww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dwꜣw  
dwAAhrw
H_SPACE
dwꜣ

Adverb

dwAAwhrw
H_SPACE
  1. in the morning
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 184–186:
      inmr
      a      		 tmwn]]Ap
      d      		 G38HDD&ra tA
      N23 Z1      		 n
      z      		 f
      t      		 T30a
      f      		 dwAAra
      jn m(j) rdjt mw ꜣpd ḥḏ tꜣ n zft.f dwꜣ(w)
      What is it to give water a bird when tomorrow morning is the dawn of its slaughter? (literally, “when the land grows white for its slaughter tomorrow/in the morning?”)
  2. tomorrow

Alternative forms

See under the noun above.

References

  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 385.
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