jwꜥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iuːɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: iua

Noun

 m

1. haunch of beef (as food)
2. human thigh

Inflection

Declension of jwꜥ (masculine)

singular	jwꜥ
dual	jwꜥwj
plural	jwꜥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwꜥ  

jwꜥw	jwꜥ	jwꜥ
	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to inherit from

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jwꜥ	jwꜥw, jwꜥ	jwꜥt	jwꜥ	jwꜥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	jwꜥ.n	jwꜥw, jwꜥ	consecutive	jwꜥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	jwꜥt
perfective3	jwꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	jwꜥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	jwꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	jwꜥ	jwꜥꜥ	potentialis1	jwꜥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	jwꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jwꜥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	jwꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	jwꜥ	jwꜥ, jwꜥw5, jwꜥy5
imperfective	jwꜥ, jwꜥy, jwꜥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	jwꜥ, jwꜥj6, jwꜥy6	jwꜥ, jwꜥw5
prospective	jwꜥ, jwꜥtj7	—	jwꜥtj4, jwꜥt4
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 jwꜥ  

jwꜥ

Derived terms

• jwꜥw
• jwꜥt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 50.3–50.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 12
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 145, 456.