wꜥꜣ

Egyptian

3-lit.

(intransitive) to speak evil, to curse or blaspheme (+ ḥr: about, against) [since Middle Kingdom literature]
(transitive) to revile (someone or something) [since the New Kingdom]

Possibly the same word as wꜣ (“to brood, to conspire”).

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
wꜥꜣ	wꜥꜣw, wꜥꜣ	wꜥꜣt	wꜥꜣ	wꜥꜣ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wꜥꜣ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	wꜥꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	wꜥꜣ	wꜥꜣ, wꜥꜣw⁵, wꜥꜣy⁵
imperfective	wꜥꜣ, wꜥꜣy, wꜥꜣw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	wꜥꜣ, wꜥꜣj⁶, wꜥꜣy⁶	wꜥꜣ, wꜥꜣw⁵
prospective	wꜥꜣ, wꜥꜣtj⁷	—	wꜥꜣtj⁴, wꜥꜣt⁴
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 wꜥꜣ

wꜥꜣ

[Late Egyptian]

[Late Period]

Demotic: wꜥy
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁ (oua)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁ (oua)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁ (oua)

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 244.10–244.13
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 57
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 458.

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