nwtwt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nuːtuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: nutut

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