jwꜥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iua

Noun

 m

1. haunch of beef (as food)
2. human thigh

Inflection

Declension of jwꜥ (masculine)

singular	jwꜥ
dual	jwꜥwj
plural	jwꜥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥ  

jwꜥ	jwꜥ	jꜥw	ꜥ	jwꜥw	ꜥꜥ
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[Book of the Dead]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) an heir, to receive one’s inheritance
2. (intransitive) to act as heir in performing the funerary duties for one’s predecessor
3. (transitive) to inherit (something)
4. (transitive) to inherit from, to succeed (someone)
5. (transitive) to endow, to present, to reward (someone) (+ m: with (something)) [18th Dynasty]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jwꜥ jwꜥw, jwꜥ jwꜥt jwꜥ jwꜥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jwꜥ ḥr jwꜥ m jwꜥ r jwꜥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect jwꜥ.n jwꜥw, jwꜥ consecutive jwꜥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative jwꜥt perfective3 jwꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 jwꜥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective jwꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 jwꜥ jwꜥꜥ potentialis1 jwꜥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive jwꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect jwꜥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective jwꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 jwꜥ jwꜥ, jwꜥw5, jwꜥy5 imperfective jwꜥ, jwꜥy, jwꜥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 jwꜥ, jwꜥj6, jwꜥy6 jwꜥ, jwꜥw5 prospective jwꜥ, jwꜥtj7 — jwꜥtj4, jwꜥt4 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 jwꜥ  

wꜥ	jwꜥ	jꜥ	jwꜥ	jwꜥ
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥ  

jwꜥ	ꜥwꜥ	jwꜥ	jwꜥꜥ	ꜥꜥ	jwꜥ
[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
	in sense ‘endow’	in sense ‘endow’

Derived terms

• jwꜥyt
• jwꜥw
• jwꜥt

References

• “jwꜥ (lemma ID 22360)” and “jwꜥ (lemma ID 22380)”, 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 50.3–50.5, 50.8–50.10, 51.8, 169, 279
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 12–13
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 145, 456.