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 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 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