-wj

Egyptian

Etymology

-w (masculine plural ending) + -j (dual ending).

Pronunciation

 

Suffix

  1. Used to form regular masculine dual forms of nouns and adjectives
  2. Attaches to the adjective in an adjectival predicate to give its clause exclamatory force

Alternative forms

This dual suffix is also often represented by writing the phonetic or determinative glyph twice, e.g. tꜣwj:


References

  • Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
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