tw.tw

Egyptian

Etymology

In origin from tj (“while”) +‎ tw or .tw (impersonal pronoun), with tj from earlier (j)sṯ, from Old Egyptian (j)sk.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tuːʔtuː/
- Conventional anglicization: tu.tu

Pronoun

impersonal proclitic (‘subject form’) pronoun

used as the impersonal subject of any adverbial predicate; one, someone or something unspecified [New Kingdom]

Usage notes

This form of pronoun is a proclitic that must stand at the beginning of a sentence (generally adverbial) and cannot come after any particles. It always indicates the subject of the sentence.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tw.tw

tw.tw

References

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 181

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