wꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: wa

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to brood over

Inflection

Conjugation of wꜣ (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: wꜣ, geminated stem: wꜣꜣ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wꜣ	wꜣw, wꜣ	wꜣt	wꜣ, j.wꜣ	wꜣ, j.wꜣ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
wꜣ	ḥr wꜣ	m wꜣ	r wꜣ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	wꜣ.n	wꜣw, wꜣ	consecutive	wꜣ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	wꜣt
perfective3	wꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	wꜣ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	wꜣ, j.wꜣ1	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	wꜣ	wꜣꜣ	potentialis1	wꜣ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	wꜣ, j.wꜣ1	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wꜣ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	wꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	wꜣ	wꜣꜣ, wꜣꜣj6, wꜣ2, wꜣw2 5, wꜣy2 5
imperfective	j.wꜣ1, wꜣ, wꜣy, wꜣw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	j.wꜣ1, j.wꜣw1 5, wꜣ, wꜣj6, wꜣy6	wꜣ, wꜣw5
prospective	wꜣ, wꜣtj7	—	wꜣtj4, wꜣt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

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 316.