ꜣwr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑuːr/
  • Conventional anglicization: aur

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to tremble [Pyramid Texts to early Middle Kingdom and Ebers Papyrus]

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣwr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜣwr, geminated stem: ꜣwrr

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜣwr ꜣwrw, ꜣwr ꜣwrt ꜣwr ꜣwr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜣwr ḥr ꜣwr m ꜣwr r ꜣwr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ꜣwr.n consecutive ꜣwr.jn terminative ꜣwrt perfective3 ꜣwr obligative1 ꜣwr.ḫr imperfective ꜣwr prospective3 ꜣwr potentialis1 ꜣwr.kꜣ subjunctive ꜣwr verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ꜣwr.n — — perfective ꜣwr ꜣwr ꜣwr, ꜣwrw5, ꜣwry5 imperfective ꜣwr, ꜣwry, ꜣwrw5 ꜣwr, ꜣwrj6, ꜣwry6 ꜣwr, ꜣwrw5 prospective ꜣwr, ꜣwrtj7 ꜣwrtj4, ꜣwrt4 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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣwr  

ꜣwr	ꜣwj
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]

Related terms

• nwr

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 5.17