pwy
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Egyptian
Etymology
Derived from pw.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /puːiː/
- Conventional anglicization: puy
Determiner
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m sg copular/vocative demonstrative determiner
- (Middle Egyptian) this is…
- (Middle Egyptian) O (vocative reference)
Usage notes
This demonstrative was always a determiner and could not stand alone as a pronoun. It follows the noun it describes.
Inflection
Old Egyptian demonstratives
| determiners | pronouns1 | adverbs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | singular | dual | plural | unmarked | ||||
| gender | masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | unmarked | |
| proximal to speaker | pn |
tn, jtn |
*jpnj |
*jptnj |
jpn |
jptn |
nn |
— |
| distal | pf |
tf |
*jpfj |
*jptfj |
jpf |
jptf |
nf |
— |
| proximal to spoken of | pj, pw, py, p |
tj, tw, jtw |
jpwj |
*jptwj |
jpw |
jptw |
nw |
— |
| vocative | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
— |
— |
— |
— |
nꜣ |
ꜥꜣ |
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Middle Egyptian demonstratives
Late Egyptian demonstratives and articles
| masculine | feminine | plural | adverb | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pronoun | pꜣw |
dj | ||||
| determiners and pronouns | pꜣj |
tꜣj |
nꜣj | |||
| possessive determiners (used with suffix pronouns) | pꜣy |
tꜣy |
nꜣy | |||
| relational pronouns (‘possessive prefixes’) | p-n, pꜣ |
t-nt, tꜣ |
nꜣyw, nꜣ | |||
| definite articles | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
nꜣ1 | |||
| indefinite articles | wꜥ1 |
nhꜣy1 | ||||
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pwy
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| pwy |
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 55.
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
Old Uyghur
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bod (“color”).
Noun
pwy (boy)
Derived terms
- ⇒ pwdw (bodu-)
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “*bo:d”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 297
- Caferoğlu, Ahmet (1968) “boy”, in Eski Uygur Türkçesi Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 260) (in Turkish), Istanbul: Edebiyat Fakültesi Basımevi, page 49
Welsh
Etymology
From Old Welsh pui, from Proto-Brythonic *puɨ, from Proto-Celtic *kʷēs, (compare Breton piv, Cornish piw, Old Irish cía), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /puːɨ̯/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /pʊ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /pʊi̯/
- Rhymes: -ʊɨ̯
Pronoun
pwy m
- (interrogative) who
- Pwy yw e? ― Who is he?
Derived terms
- pwy bynnag (“whoever”)
- ta pwy (“whoever”)
Determiner
pwy
- (South Wales) (colloquial) which
- Synonym: pa
- Pwy un yw e? ― Which one is he/it?
- (South Wales) (colloquial) a certain, the other
- Synonym: pa
- Weles i fe pwy ddiwrnod. ― I saw him/it the other day.
Related terms
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| pwy | bwy | mhwy | phwy |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||