ꜣwr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑuːr/
  • Conventional anglicization: aur

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to tremble [Pyramid Texts to early Middle Kingdom and Ebers Papyrus]

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣwr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜣwr, geminated stem: ꜣwrr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣwr	ꜣwrw, ꜣwr	ꜣwrt	ꜣwr	ꜣwr

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜣwr	ḥr ꜣwr	m ꜣwr	r ꜣwr

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜣwr.n	consecutive	ꜣwr.jn
terminative	ꜣwrt
perfective3	ꜣwr	obligative1	ꜣwr.ḫr
imperfective	ꜣwr
prospective3	ꜣwr	potentialis1	ꜣwr.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜣwr

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣwr.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣwr	ꜣwr	ꜣwr, ꜣwrw5, ꜣwry5
imperfective	ꜣwr, ꜣwry, ꜣwrw5	ꜣwr, ꜣwrj6, ꜣwry6	ꜣwr, ꜣwrw5
prospective	ꜣwr, ꜣwrtj7	ꜣwrtj4, ꜣwrt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣwr  

ꜣwr	ꜣwj
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]

Related terms

• nwr

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 5.17