ꜣdw

Egyptian

Etymology

ꜣd (“to be aggressive or raging”) +‎ -w (agent nominalizer).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈʀaːtʼaw/ → /ˈʀaːtʼaw/ → /ˈʔaːtʼə/ → /ʔoːtʼ/

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

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑduː/
  • Conventional anglicization: adu

Noun

 m

1. crocodile [since the Coffin Texts]

Inflection

Declension of ꜣdw (masculine)

singular	ꜣdw
dual	ꜣdwwj
plural	ꜣdww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣdw  

ꜣd

Noun

 m

1. aggressive or raging person, aggressor

   ― ḫsf ꜣdw ― to fend off someone raging

Inflection

Declension of ꜣdw (masculine)

singular	ꜣdw
dual	ꜣdwwj
plural	ꜣdww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣdw  

ꜣdw	ꜣt	ꜣt	jd
[Middle Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “ꜣd.w (lemma ID 353)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 24.11, 24.20–24.21
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 6–7