Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- haunch of beef (as food)
- human thigh
Inflection
Declension of jwꜥ (masculine)
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jwꜥ
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| dual
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jwꜥwj
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| plural
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jwꜥw
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥ
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| jwꜥ
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jwꜥ
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jꜥw
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ꜥ
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jwꜥw
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ꜥꜥ
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[Old Kingdom]
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[18th Dynasty]
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[Book of the Dead]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) an heir, to receive one’s inheritance
- (intransitive) to act as heir in performing the funerary duties for one’s predecessor
- (transitive) to inherit (something)
- (transitive) to inherit from, to succeed (someone)
- (transitive) to endow, to present, to reward (someone) (+ m: with (something)) [18th Dynasty]
Inflection
Conjugation of jwꜥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: jwꜥ, geminated stem: jwꜥꜥ
| 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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jwꜥ
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jwꜥw, jwꜥ
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jwꜥt
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jwꜥ
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jwꜥ
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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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jwꜥ
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ḥr jwꜥ
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m jwꜥ
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r jwꜥ
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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jwꜥ.n
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jwꜥw, jwꜥ
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consecutive
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jwꜥ.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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jwꜥt
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| perfective3
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jwꜥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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jwꜥ.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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jwꜥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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jwꜥ
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jwꜥꜥ
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potentialis1
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jwꜥ.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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jwꜥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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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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passive
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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jwꜥ.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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| perfective
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jwꜥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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jwꜥ
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jwꜥ, jwꜥw5, jwꜥy5
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| imperfective
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jwꜥ, jwꜥy, jwꜥw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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jwꜥ, jwꜥj6, jwꜥy6
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jwꜥ, jwꜥw5
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| prospective
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jwꜥ, jwꜥtj7
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—
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jwꜥtj4, jwꜥt4
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1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
3 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.
4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
5 Only in the masculine singular.
6 Only in the masculine.
7 Only in the feminine.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥ
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| wꜥ
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jwꜥ
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jꜥ
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jwꜥ
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jwꜥ
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[Old Kingdom]
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[New Kingdom]
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥ
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| jwꜥ
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ꜥwꜥ
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jwꜥ
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jwꜥꜥ
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ꜥꜥ
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jwꜥ
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[18th Dynasty]
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[18th Dynasty]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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[Greco-Roman Period]
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in sense ‘endow’
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in sense ‘endow’
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Derived terms
References
- “jwꜥ (lemma ID 22360)” and “jwꜥ (lemma ID 22380)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 50.3–50.5, 50.8–50.10, 51.8, 169, 279
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 12–13
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 145, 456.