jꜣwj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑuːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: iawi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) old [since the Old Kingdom]

   Synonym: tnj

Inflection

Conjugation of jꜣwj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: jꜣw

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jꜣwt, jꜣwj jꜣww, jꜣwyw, jꜣw jꜣwt, jꜣwwt, jꜣwyt jꜣw jꜣw, jꜣwy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jꜣw8 ḥr jꜣwt, ḥr jꜣwj m jꜣwt, ḥr jꜣwj r jꜣwt, ḥr jꜣwj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect jꜣw.n consecutive jꜣw.jn terminative jꜣwt perfective3 jꜣw obligative1 jꜣw.ḫr imperfective jꜣw, jꜣwy prospective3 jꜣww, jꜣw, jꜣwy potentialis1 jꜣw.kꜣ subjunctive jꜣw, jꜣwy verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect jꜣw.n — — perfective jꜣww1, jꜣwy, jꜣw jꜣw jꜣwy, jꜣw imperfective jꜣw, jꜣwy, jꜣww5 jꜣw, jꜣwj6, jꜣwy6 jꜣw, jꜣww5 prospective jꜣww1, jꜣwy, jꜣw, jꜣwtj7 jꜣwwtj1 4, jꜣwtj4, jꜣwt4 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 jꜣwj  

jꜣj	jꜣwj	jꜣj
[Old Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]
		abbreviation

Derived terms

• jꜣwt

Related terms

• jꜣw

Descendants

• Demotic: jꜣw
  • Old Coptic: ⲱⲉ (ōe)
  • → Ancient Greek: -αγοῆς (-agoês), -αοῆς (-aoês), -αυῆς (-auês)

Noun

 m

1. Alternative form of jꜣw (“old age”)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 28.8–28.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 8
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 455.