-wj

Etymology

-w (“masculine plural ending”) + -j (“dual ending”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wi/
  • Conventional anglicization: -wi

Suffix

1. Used to form regular masculine dual forms of nouns and adjectives
2. Attaches to the adjective in an adjectival predicate to give its clause exclamatory force

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of -wj  

-wj	-w

This dual suffix is also often represented by writing the phonetic or determinative glyph twice, e.g. tꜣwj:

References

• Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 60
• Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN