dwꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /duːɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: dua

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to worship, to praise

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
dwꜣ	dwꜣw, dwꜣ	dwꜣt	dwꜣ	dwꜣ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	dwꜣ.n	dwꜣw, dwꜣ	consecutive	dwꜣ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	dwꜣt
perfective3	dwꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	dwꜣ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	dwꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	dwꜣ	dwꜣꜣ	potentialis1	dwꜣ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	dwꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	dwꜣ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	dwꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	dwꜣ	dwꜣ, dwꜣw5, dwꜣy5
imperfective	dwꜣ, dwꜣy, dwꜣw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	dwꜣ, dwꜣj6, dwꜣy6	dwꜣ, dwꜣw5
prospective	dwꜣ, dwꜣtj7	—	dwꜣtj4, dwꜣt4
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.

Derived terms

• dwꜣw
• dwꜣt
• dwꜣ-mwt.f
• dwꜣ nṯr n

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 348.