mꜣwj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈmiʀwit/ → /ˈmiʀwiʔ/ → /ˈmiːwa/ → /ˈmiːwə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiʀwit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiʀwiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːwa/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːwə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɑuːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: mawi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) new

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural mꜣwt, mꜣwj mꜣww, mꜣwyw, mꜣw mꜣwt, mꜣwwt, mꜣwyt mꜣw mꜣw, mꜣwy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 mꜣw8 ḥr mꜣwt, ḥr mꜣwj m mꜣwt, ḥr mꜣwj r mꜣwt, ḥr mꜣwj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect mꜣw.n consecutive mꜣw.jn terminative mꜣwt perfective3 mꜣw obligative1 mꜣw.ḫr imperfective mꜣw, mꜣwy prospective3 mꜣww, mꜣw, mꜣwy potentialis1 mꜣw.kꜣ subjunctive mꜣw, mꜣwy verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect mꜣw.n — — perfective mꜣww1, mꜣwy, mꜣw mꜣw mꜣwy, mꜣw imperfective mꜣw, mꜣwy, mꜣww5 mꜣw, mꜣwj6, mꜣwy6 mꜣw, mꜣww5 prospective mꜣww1, mꜣwy, mꜣw, mꜣwtj7 mꜣwwtj1 4, mꜣwtj4, mꜣwt4 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.

Derived terms

• mꜣwt
• smꜣwj

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 36.