rwj

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ruːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: rui

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to get away (+ r: from (a place or thing))
2. (intransitive) to go away, to depart
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 23:

     jwyt zb(.w) sjw(w) rw.w tꜣ m ḥtpw ẖr nb.f

     Wrongdoing has gone, the Slanderer has departed, and the land is in peace under its lord.

3. (transitive) to leave, to depart (a place)
4. (transitive) to escape (something bad)

Inflection

Conjugation of rwj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: rw, geminated stem: rww

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
rwt, rwj	rww, rw	rwt, rwwt, rwyt	rw	rw, rwy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
rw8, rww8	ḥr rwt, ḥr rwj	m rwt, m rwj	r rwt, r rwj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	rw.n	rww, rw, rwy	consecutive	rw.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	rwt, rwyt
perfective3	rw	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	rw.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	rw, rwy	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	rww, rw, rwy	rww, rw, rwy	potentialis1	rw.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	rw, rwy	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	rw.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	rww1, rwy, rw	active + .tj1, .tw2	rw	rwy, rw
imperfective	rww, rwwy, rwww5	active + .tj1, .tw2	rww, rwwj6, rwwy6	rww, rwww5
prospective	rww1, rwy, rw, rwtj7	—	rwwtj1 4, rwtj4, rwt4
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.

Derived terms

• srwj

Descendants

• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲗⲁ (la)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲗⲟ (lo)

Etymology 2

Dual form of r(ꜣ) (“part, piece, ¹⁄_…”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ruːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: rewi

Noun

 m du

1. (dual only) two thirds

References

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 25
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 105.