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Egyptian
Etymology 1
From gr (“to be still, to be silent”) + -w.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- one who is silent, one who doesn’t talk
- a calm, dispassionate, and self-effacing person, seen as wisely living according to Maat (virtue/truth/cosmic order)
- Antonym: wḫꜣ
- c. 1928–1924 BCE, Stele of Wepwawetaa (Leiden V4/AP 63), lines 9–10:
- jnk grw mm srw ssbq.n nswt ḫnt tꜣwj mḥ-jb.f ḫnt rḫwt.f
- I was a silent/dispassionate one among the officials, whom the king honored in front of the Two Lands (Egypt), his confidant at the fore of his subjects
Usage notes
In the second sense, this word is often followed by epithets such as mꜣꜥ (“just, true”).
Inflection
Declension of grw (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of grw
Etymology 2
Compare the (mostly Old Egyptian) enclitic particle gr.
Pronunciation
Adverb
- also, furthermore
- any more
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of grw
Descendants
References
- “gr.w (lemma ID 167800)” and “gr (lemma ID 167740)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 179.3–179.8, 180.9–180.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 290
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 94, 263.
- ^ Alternatively, taking as imperative (j)m: ‘…the place of the calm man is broad. Don’t speak!’ The first clause can also be interpreted in two different ways. If represents the preposition n, then ‘The tent is open to the quiet man’; but if it represents the genitival adjective n(j), then ‘The tent of the quiet man is open’. The first interpretation is more appealing semantically, but the second is favored by parallelism with the following clause.