Loprieno suggests an origin fromtj(“while”) +‎wj(first-person pronoun), withtj from earlier(j)sṯ, from Old Egyptian(j)sk.^[1] Stauder argues against this hypothesis and instead proposes a development fromntt(complementizer) +‎wj(first-person pronoun) with subsequent reanalysis.^[2] Regardless of origin, later reinterpreted as an elementtw + the suffix pronoun.j.

• (modern Egyptological)IPA^(key): /tuːʔi/
  • Conventional anglicization:tu.i

 sg1. proclitic (‘subject form’) pronoun

1. I[since the 17th Dynasty]

This form of pronoun is aproclitic 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.

• James P[eter] Allen (2010),Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page116.

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