-wj
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /wVj/ → /wVj/ → /w/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wi/
- Conventional anglicization: -wi
Suffix
- Used to form regular masculine dual forms of nouns and adjectives
- Attaches to the adjective in an adjectival predicate to give its clause exclamatory force
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of -wj
-wj | -w |
This dual suffix is also often represented by writing the phonetic or determinative glyph twice, e.g. tꜣwj:
References
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
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