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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2ae gem.
- (intransitive) to be(come) physically big, large
- (intransitive) to be(come) much, numerous, many in number or great in quantity
- (intransitive, of abstract things) to be(come) great in degree or magnitude, strong, extreme
- (intransitive, of time, rare) to be(come) long
- (intransitive, of people) to be(come) older, senior, the elder among several
- (intransitive, usually of people, royal possessions or sacred animals) to be(come) great, important, distinguished, exalted
- (intransitive, of people, in titles) to be(come) the chief or main one
- (intransitive, of the Nile) to be(come) high, swollen with floodwater, to be in inundation
- (intransitive, of festivals) to be(come) great, magnificent
Inflection
Conjugation of wrr (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: wr, geminated stem: wrr
| 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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wrr8
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wrr
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wrrt
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wrr, wr
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wrr, wr
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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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wrr, wr
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ḥr wrr
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m wrr
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r wrr
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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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wrr.n, wr.n
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consecutive
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wr.jn
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| terminative
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wrrt
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| perfective3
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wr
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obligative1
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wrr.ḫr
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| imperfective
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wrr
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| prospective3
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wrr
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potentialis1
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wr.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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wr
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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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wr.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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wr
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wr
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wr, wrw5, wry5
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| imperfective
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wrr, wrry, wrrw5
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wrr, wrrj6, wrry6
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wrr, wrrw5
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| prospective
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wr, wrtj7
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wrrtj4, wrrt4
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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.
- wr before suffix pronouns.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
References
- “wrr (lemma ID 47270)”, 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 326–328.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 63
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 228.
