dwꜣw

Egyptian

Etymology

dwꜣ (“to rise early, to praise”) +‎ -w (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /duːɑuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: duau

Noun

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1. early morning
2. tomorrow

Inflection

Declension of dwꜣw (masculine)

singular	dwꜣw
dual	dwꜣwwj
plural	dwꜣww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dwꜣw  

dwꜣ

Adverb

1. in the morning
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 184–186:

     jn m(j) rdjt mw [n] ꜣpd ḥḏ tꜣ n zft.f dwꜣ(w)

     What is it to give water [to] a bird when tomorrow morning is the dawn of its slaughter? (literally, “when the land grows white for its slaughter tomorrow/in the morning?”)

2. tomorrow

Alternative forms

See under the noun above.

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 385.