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Egyptian
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Semitic *ʔabay-. Compare Hebrew אבה (ʾāḇā, “to be willing”).
Pronunciation
Verb
3ae inf.
- (transitive) to desire, to want, to long for (a thing, a person, or a place)
- (transitive or rarely intransitive with n or r, with following infinitive) to want to do
- (intransitive, with m, Late Egyptian) to take pleasure at, to be happy about
Inflection
Conjugation of ꜣbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜣb, geminated stem: ꜣbb
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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ꜣbt, ꜣbj
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ꜣbw, ꜣb
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ꜣbt, ꜣbwt, ꜣbyt
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ꜣb
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ꜣb, ꜣby
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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ꜣb.n
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ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby
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consecutive
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ꜣb.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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ꜣbt, ꜣbyt
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| perfective3
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ꜣb
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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ꜣb.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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ꜣb, ꜣby
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby
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ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby
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potentialis1
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ꜣb.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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ꜣb, ꜣby
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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passive
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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ꜣb.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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| perfective
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ꜣbw1, ꜣby, ꜣb
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜣb
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ꜣby, ꜣb
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| imperfective
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ꜣbb, ꜣbby, ꜣbbw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜣbb, ꜣbbj6, ꜣbby6
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ꜣbb, ꜣbbw5
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| prospective
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ꜣbw1, ꜣby, ꜣb, ꜣbtj7
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—
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ꜣbwtj1 4, ꜣbtj4, ꜣbt4
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- Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
- Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
- Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective.
- Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
- Only in the masculine singular.
- Only in the masculine.
- Only in the feminine.
- Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbj
Derived terms
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 171.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 6.24–7.7
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
- Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pages 7–8
