pꜣwtj

Egyptian

FWOTD – 12 December 2021

Etymology

From pꜣwt (“primaeval time”) +‎ -j (nisba ending).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɑuːti/
  • Conventional anglicization: pauti

Adjective

1. primaeval (especially of gods or sacred places)

Inflection

Declension of pꜣwtj (nisba adjective)

	masculine	feminine
singular	pꜣwtj	pꜣwtt
dual	pꜣwtjwj, pꜣwtwj	pꜣwttj
plural	pꜣwtjw, pꜣwtw	pꜣwtwt1, pꜣwtt2
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pꜣwtj  

pꜣtj	pꜣtj

Noun

 m

1. primaeval god
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 3–4:

     ḏd rn m r(ꜣ) n(j) rmt pꜣ(w)tj n(j) tꜣwj tm ḏf(ꜣ) kꜣw ḫnt psḏt ꜣḫ mnḫ mmj ꜣḫw

     […] (Osiris,) whose name endures (literally, “enduring of name”) in the mouth of people, primaeval one of the Two Lands (Egypt), complete of food and sustenance at the head of the Ennead, potent akh among the akhs.

Inflection

Declension of pꜣwtj (masculine)

singular	pꜣwtj
dual	pꜣwtjwj
plural	pꜣwtjw

Alternative forms

See under the adjective above.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 496.12–497.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 87