-wj

Egyptian

Etymology

-w (“masculine plural ending”) + -j (“dual ending”).

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /wVj/ → /wVj/ → /wə/ → /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 admirative exclamatory force: How very… ! How… !
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 21:
  
  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

The dual suffix is also often represented by writing the phonetic or determinative glyph twice, e.g. tꜣwj:

N16

N16

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, pages 39–40, 70–71, 337.

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