ḏwj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: djewi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) evil, bad, wicked, harmful
2. (intransitive, of the secretions of corpses, filth, etc.) to be(come) unclean

Inflection

Conjugation of ḏwj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḏw, geminated stem: ḏww

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḏwt, ḏwj ḏww, ḏw ḏwt, ḏwwt, ḏwyt ḏw ḏw, ḏwy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḏw8, ḏww8 ḥr ḏwt, ḥr ḏwj m ḏwt, m ḏwj r ḏwt, r ḏwj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḏw.n ḏww, ḏw, ḏwy consecutive ḏw.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḏwt, ḏwyt perfective3 ḏw active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḏw.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḏw, ḏwy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḏww, ḏw, ḏwy ḏww, ḏw, ḏwy potentialis1 ḏw.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḏw, ḏwy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḏw.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḏww1, ḏwy, ḏw active + .tj1, .tw2 ḏw ḏwy, ḏw imperfective ḏww, ḏwwy, ḏwww5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ḏww, ḏwwj6, ḏwwy6 ḏww, ḏwww5 prospective ḏww1, ḏwy, ḏw, ḏwtj7 — ḏwwtj1 4, ḏwtj4, ḏwt4 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. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḏwj  

ḏw	ḏw

Derived terms

• bd ḏwj (“badness”)
• ḏwj (“evil”, adjective)
• ḏwt (“evil, sadness”, noun)

Adverb

1. badly, wickedly

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 545.9–547.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 320
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 270.