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-wj
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Appendix:Variations of "wj"
Egyptian
Etymology
egy -w masculine plural ending + egy -j dual ending.
Pronunciation
wVj wVj wə w
Suffix
w&y
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… !
egy GHtO. line 21 bnr-w&y-U7:t:f-x:r:n:Z2 bnrwj mr(w)t.f ḫr.n How sweet is the love of him among us!
Alternative forms
W:y -wj w -w
The dual suffix is also often represented by writing the phonetic or determinative glyph twice, e.g. egy tꜣwj: N16:N16
References
60
39–40, 70–71, 337