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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2-lit.
- (intransitive) to run
- (intransitive, of the inundation) to rush by
- (transitive) to abandon (someone), to forsake, to leave in the lurch
- (transitive) to run through (a place)
Inflection
Conjugation of bṯ (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: bṯ, geminated stem: bṯṯ
| 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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bṯ
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bṯw, bṯ
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bṯt
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bṯ, j.bṯ
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bṯ, j.bṯ
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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bṯ
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ḥr bṯ
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m bṯ
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r bṯ
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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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bṯ.n
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bṯw, bṯ
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consecutive
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bṯ.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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bṯt
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| perfective3
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bṯ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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bṯ.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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bṯ, j.bṯ1
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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bṯ
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bṯṯ
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potentialis1
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bṯ.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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bṯ, j.bṯ1
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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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bṯ.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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bṯ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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bṯ
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bṯṯ, bṯṯj6, bṯ2, bṯw2 5, bṯy2 5
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| imperfective
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j.bṯ1, bṯ, bṯy, bṯw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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j.bṯ1, j.bṯw1 5, bṯ, bṯj6, bṯy6
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bṯ, bṯw5
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| prospective
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bṯ, bṯtj7
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—
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bṯtj4, bṯt4
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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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bṯ
References
- “bṯ (lemma ID 854510)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 484.15, 485.6–10
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 86
