wrr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /waˈɾaɾ/ → /waˈɾaʔ/ → /wəˈɾaʔ/ → /wəˈɾaʔ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /waˈɾaɾ/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /waˈɾaʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /wəˈɾaʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /wəˈɾaʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛrɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: werer

Verb

 2ae gem.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) physically big, large
2. (intransitive) to be(come) much, numerous, many in number or great in quantity
3. (intransitive, of abstract things) to be(come) great in degree or magnitude, strong, extreme
4. (intransitive, of time, rare) to be(come) long
5. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) older, senior, the elder among several
6. (intransitive, usually of people, royal possessions or sacred animals) to be(come) great, important, distinguished, exalted
7. (intransitive, of people, in titles) to be(come) the chief or main one
8. (intransitive, of the Nile) to be(come) high, swollen with floodwater, to be in inundation
9. (intransitive, of festivals) to be(come) great, magnificent

Inflection

Conjugation of wrr (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: wr, geminated stem: wrr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wrr8	wrr	wrrt	wrr, wr	wrr, wr

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
wrr, wr	ḥr wrr	m wrr	r wrr

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	wrr.n, wr.n	consecutive	wr.jn
terminative	wrrt
perfective3	wr	obligative1	wrr.ḫr
imperfective	wrr
prospective3	wrr	potentialis1	wr.kꜣ
subjunctive	wr

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	wr.n	—	—
perfective	wr	wr	wr, wrw5, wry5
imperfective	wrr, wrry, wrrw5	wrr, wrrj6, wrry6	wrr, wrrw5
prospective	wr, wrtj7	wrrtj4, wrrt4
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. wr before suffix pronouns.

Synonyms

• ꜥꜣj

Antonyms

• nḏs
• šrr
• ktt

Derived terms

• jꜥḥ wr
• jwn-wr
• jmj-r-pr-wr
• ꜥḥ-wr
• wꜣḏ-wr
• wr-mꜣw
• wr-ḥkꜣw
• wrt
• pẖr-wr
• ptḥ-wr
• mr-wr
• ḥꜣb-wr
• ḥr-wr
• tꜣ-wr

 

References

• “wrr (lemma ID 47270)”, 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 326–328.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 63
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 228.