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
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. 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.