mꜣwj

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈmiʀwit/ → /ˈmiʀwiʔ/ → /ˈmiːwə/

Verb

 4ae inf.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) new

Inflection
Conjugation of mꜣwj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: mꜣw
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
mꜣwt, mꜣwj
 mꜣww, mꜣwyw, mꜣw
 mꜣwt, mꜣwwt, mꜣwyt
 mꜣw
 mꜣw, mꜣwy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
mꜣw8
 ḥr mꜣwt, ḥr mꜣwj
 m mꜣwt, ḥr mꜣwj
 r mꜣwt, ḥr mꜣwj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect mꜣw.n
 consecutive mꜣw.jn
terminative mꜣwt
perfective3 mꜣw
 obligative mꜣw.ḫr
imperfective mꜣw, mꜣwy
prospective3 mꜣww, mꜣw, mꜣwy
 potentialis mꜣw.kꜣ
subjunctive mꜣw, mꜣwy
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect mꜣw.n
 — —
perfective mꜣww1, mꜣwy, mꜣw
 mꜣw
 mꜣwy, mꜣw
imperfective mꜣw, mꜣwy, mꜣww5
 mꜣw, mꜣwj6, mꜣwy6
 mꜣw, mꜣww5
prospective mꜣww1, mꜣwy, mꜣw, mꜣwtj7
 mꜣwwtj1 4, mꜣwtj4, mꜣwt4
  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, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Derived terms

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 36.
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