tw.tw

Egyptian

Etymology

In origin from tj (“while”) +‎ tw or .tw (impersonal pronoun), with tj from earlier (j)sṯ, from Old Egyptian (j)sk.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tuːʔtuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: tu.tu

Pronoun

impersonal proclitic (‘subject form’) pronoun

1. used as the impersonal subject of any adverbial predicate; one, someone or something unspecified [New Kingdom]

Usage notes

This form of pronoun is a proclitic that must stand at the beginning of a sentence (generally adverbial) and cannot come after any particles. It always indicates the subject of the sentence.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tw.tw  

tw.tw

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 181.