ꜥꜥw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʔɑːuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: aau

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, always negated) to sleep [Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥꜥw (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜥꜥw

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥꜥw	ꜥꜥww, ꜥꜥw	ꜥꜥwt	ꜥꜥw	ꜥꜥw

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜥꜥw	ḥr ꜥꜥw	m ꜥꜥw	r ꜥꜥw

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜥꜥw.n	consecutive	ꜥꜥw.jn
terminative	ꜥꜥwt
perfective3	ꜥꜥw	obligative1	ꜥꜥw.ḫr
imperfective	ꜥꜥw
prospective3	ꜥꜥw	potentialis1	ꜥꜥw.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜥꜥw

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜥꜥw.n	—	—
perfective	ꜥꜥw	ꜥꜥw	ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥww5, ꜥꜥwy5
imperfective	ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥwy, ꜥꜥww5	ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥwj6, ꜥꜥwy6	ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥww5
prospective	ꜥꜥw, ꜥꜥwtj7	ꜥꜥwtj4, ꜥꜥwt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜥw  

ꜥꜥwj	ꜥꜥ	ꜣꜥꜥwj	ꜣꜥꜥ	ꜣꜥꜥwj
[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
		in hieratic	in hieratic; from Papyrus Louvre 3129, J, 26 (Urk. VI 119)

Noun

 m

1. sleep

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

Derived terms

• ꜥꜥwj n qdd

Verb

1. (intransitive, of the heart) to flutter [Medical papyri]

Related terms

(Possibly:)

• ꜥꜥj
• ꜥw

References

• “ꜥꜥw (lemma ID 35740)”, “ꜥꜥw (lemma ID 35760)”, and “ꜥꜥw (lemma ID 35750)”, 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 169.8–169.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38