-wj
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /wVj/ → /wVj/ → /w/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /wi/
- Conventional anglicization: -wi
Suffix
- Used to form regular masculine dual forms of nouns and adjectives
- Attaches to the adjective in an adjectival predicate to give its clause exclamatory force
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 21:
![M30 [bnr] bnr](../I/hiero_M30.png.webp)


![X1 [t] t](../I/hiero_X1.png.webp)
![I9 [f] f](../I/hiero_I9.png.webp)
![Aa1 [x] x](../I/hiero_Aa1.png.webp)
![D21 [r] r](../I/hiero_D21.png.webp)
![N35 [n] n](../I/hiero_N35.png.webp)

- bnrwj mr(w)t.f ḫr.n
- How sweet is the love of him among us!
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of -wj
| -wj | -w |
This dual suffix is also often represented by writing the phonetic or determinative glyph twice, e.g. tꜣwj:
References
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 70–71, 337 page 39–40, 70–71, 337.
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