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w Appendix:Variations of "w" Egyptian Pronunciation Pronoun suffix p 3p w-Z2ss:: they, them, their (see usage notes) from c.1400 Usage notes This form began to replace the old third person plural pronoun, egy .sn, from c.1400 This process started with the objects of prepositions and then instances of the pronoun attached to egy jw. By Late Egyptian it was the standard form outside of the most formal texts, which retained egy .sn. Inflection Alternative forms W:Z2ss .w Z2ss .w Late Egyptian Pronoun stative c-p m-s 3p w egy attached to a stative verb form he, him, they, them Usage notes Some authors distinguish between the singular and plural as two different morphemes, treating plural egy .w as a variant of Old Egyptian egy .wy or egy *.wj and singular egy .w as a variant of Old Egyptian egy .j; however, at least by Middle Egyptian, no distinction seems to have been made. In Old Egyptian, egy .w and its variants were used for the masculine plural, while egy .tj and its variants were used for the feminine plural. By Middle Egyptian, egy .w had taken on both roles, making plural egy .tj rare. This suffix is usually omitted entirely. When written at all, it is often written before the determinative of the verb. Inflection Alternative forms ∅ most commonly, thismorpheme is left unwritten W .w i-i .y in Middle Egyptian, plural only;in Late Egyptian, general i .j Old Kingdom masculine singular only i-w .jw Old Kingdom plural hapax, possibly erroneousor metathesized from egy *.wj w-i-i .wy Old Kingdom to Coffin Texts masculine plural only W:Z2ss .w Late Egyptian plural only Z3A .w Late Egyptian plural only References 50, 206 52, 82