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pwy
pwy
Egyptian
Pronoun
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masculine singular
- vocative pronoun
Usage notes
Follows the addressee. The plural forms were normal in Old Egyptian, but in later periods their usage was archaic and mostly restricted to religious texts.
There is an alternative hieroglyphic writing:
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Inflection
| Declension | sing. | plural |
| masc | pwy | jpw |
| fem | twy | jptw |
References
Allen, Middle Egyptian
Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kʷēs, (compare Breton piv, Cornish piw, Old Irish cía), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /pʊɨ̯/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /pʊi̯/
Pronoun
pwy
- (interrogative) who
- Pwy ydy o? ― Who is he?
Mutation
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| pwy | bwy | mhwy | phwy |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||