grw

grw

See also: GRW

Egyptian

FWOTD – 29 August 2019

Etymology 1

From gr (“to be still, to be silent”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɡɛruː/
  • Conventional anglicization: geru

Noun

 m

1. one who is silent, one who doesn’t talk [Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom]
2. a calm, dispassionate, and self-effacing person, seen as wisely living according to Maat (virtue/truth/cosmic order) [Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom]
   • c. 1928–1924 BCE, Stele of Wepwawetaa (Leiden V4/AP 63), lines 9–10:

     …

     jnk grw mm srw […] ssbq.n nswt ḫnt tꜣwj mḥ-jb.f ḫnt rḫwt.f

     I was a silent/dispassionate one among the officials, […] whom the king honored in front of the Two Lands (Egypt), his confidant at the fore of his subjects

   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.1–1.2:

     wn ẖn n grw wsḫ st nt hr m mdww

     Open is the tent to the quiet one; broad is the place of the one calm in speech.

Usage notes

In the second sense, this word is often followed by epithets such as mꜣꜥ (“just, true”).

Inflection

Declension of grw (masculine)

singular	grw
dual	grwwj
plural	grww

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of grw  

gr	grw	gr

Antonyms

• (calm and self-effacing person): wḫꜣ

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɡɛruː/
  • Conventional anglicization: geru

Adverb

1. also, furthermore
2. any more

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of grw  

gr

This writing is more common than the full form.

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 263 page 94, 263.
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 180.9–180.11
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 290