ṯwn

See also: twn, TWN, and .twn

Egyptian

3-lit.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ṯwn	ṯwnw, ṯwn	ṯwnt	ṯwn	ṯwn

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ṯwn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ṯwn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ṯwn	ṯwn, ṯwnw⁵, ṯwny⁵
imperfective	ṯwn, ṯwny, ṯwnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ṯwn, ṯwnj⁶, ṯwny⁶	ṯwn, ṯwnw⁵
prospective	ṯwn, ṯwntj⁷	—	ṯwntj⁴, ṯwnt⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of ṯwn

ṯwn

twn

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 359.11–359.12
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 304

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.