wrr

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /waˈɾaɾ/ → /waˈɾaʔ/ → /wəˈɾaʔ/ → /wəˈɾaʔ/

Verb
wr
r		 r

 2ae gem.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) physically big, large
  2. (intransitive) to be(come) much, numerous, many in number or great in quantity
  3. (intransitive, of abstract things) to be(come) great in degree or magnitude, strong, extreme
  4. (intransitive, of time, rare) to be(come) long
  5. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) older, senior, the elder among several
  6. (intransitive, usually of people, royal possessions or sacred animals) to be(come) great, important, distinguished, exalted
  7. (intransitive, of people, in titles) to be(come) the chief or main one
  8. (intransitive, of the Nile) to be(come) high, swollen with floodwater, to be in inundation
  9. (intransitive, of festivals) to be(come) great, magnificent

Inflection
Conjugation of wrr (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: wr, geminated stem: wrr
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
wrr8
 wrr
 wrrt
 wrr, wr
 wrr, wr
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
wrr, wr
 ḥr wrr
 m wrr
 r wrr
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect wrr.n, wr.n
 consecutive wr.jn
terminative wrrt
perfective3 wr
 obligative1 wrr.ḫr
imperfective wrr
prospective3 wrr
 potentialis1 wr.kꜣ
subjunctive wr
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect wr.n
 — —
perfective wr
 wr
 wr, wrw5, wry5
imperfective wrr, wrry, wrrw5
 wrr, wrrj6, wrry6
 wrr, wrrw5
prospective wr, wrtj7
 wrrtj4, wrrt4
  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. wr before suffix pronouns.

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References
  • “wrr (lemma ID 47270)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 326–328.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 63
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 228.
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