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 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.

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.