nwtwt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 5-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to totter

Inflection

Conjugation of nwtwt (quinquiliteral / 5-lit. / 5rad.) — base stem: nwtwt
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
nwtwt
nwtwtw, nwtwt
nwtwtt
nwtwt
nwtwt
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
nwtwt
ḥr nwtwt
m nwtwt
r nwtwt
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect nwtwt.n
consecutive nwtwt.jn
terminative nwtwtt
perfective3 nwtwt
obligative1 nwtwt.ḫr
imperfective nwtwt
prospective3 nwtwtw, nwtwt
potentialis1 nwtwt.kꜣ
subjunctive nwtwt
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect nwtwt.n
perfective nwtwt
nwtwt
nwtwt, nwtwtw5, nwtwty5
imperfective nwtwt, nwtwty, nwtwtw5
nwtwt, nwtwtj6, nwtwty6
nwtwt, nwtwtw5
prospective nwtwt, nwtwttj7
nwtwtwtj1 4, nwtwttj4, nwtwtt4

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.

References

  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 174.