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 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 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. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine. 8 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.