dwꜣw

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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dwꜣ (to rise early, to praise) +‎ -w (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dwAAwhrw
H_SPACE

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  1. early morning
  2. tomorrow

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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Adverb

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dwAAwhrw
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  1. in the morning
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 184–186:
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      t
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      f
      dwAAra
      jn m(j) rdjt mw [n] ꜣpd ḥḏ tꜣ n zft.f dwꜣ(w)
      What is it to give water [to] a bird when tomorrow morning is the dawn of its slaughter? (literally, “when the land grows white for its slaughter tomorrow/in the morning?”)
  2. tomorrow

Alternative forms

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See under the noun above.

References

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  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 385.