gꜣw

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɡɑuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: gau

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) narrow

Inflection

Conjugation of gꜣw (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: gꜣ, geminated stem: gꜣꜣ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
gꜣt, gꜣj	gꜣw, gꜣ	gꜣt, gꜣwt, gꜣyt	gꜣ	gꜣ, gꜣy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
gꜣ8, gꜣꜣ8	ḥr gꜣt, ḥr gꜣj	m gꜣt, m gꜣj	r gꜣt, r gꜣj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	gꜣ.n	consecutive	gꜣ.jn
terminative	gꜣt, gꜣyt
perfective3	gꜣ	obligative1	gꜣ.ḫr
imperfective	gꜣ, gꜣy
prospective3	gꜣw, gꜣ, gꜣy	potentialis1	gꜣ.kꜣ
subjunctive	gꜣ, gꜣy

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	gꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	gꜣw1, gꜣy, gꜣ	gꜣ	gꜣy, gꜣ
imperfective	gꜣꜣ, gꜣꜣy, gꜣꜣw5	gꜣꜣ, gꜣꜣj6, gꜣꜣy6	gꜣꜣ, gꜣꜣw5
prospective	gꜣw1, gꜣy, gꜣ, gꜣtj7	gꜣwtj1 4, gꜣtj4, gꜣt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Synonyms

• ḥns

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 151.6–152.7