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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) injured, to be(come) mutilated
- (intransitive) to hurt, to be(come) painful
- (intransitive) to be(come) distorted
- (intransitive) to be(come) missing, to abate or disappear (+ r: from)
Inflection
Conjugation of jꜣṯ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: jꜣṯ, geminated stem: jꜣṯṯ
| 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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jꜣṯ
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jꜣṯw, jꜣṯ
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jꜣṯt
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jꜣṯ
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jꜣṯ
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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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jꜣṯ
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ḥr jꜣṯ
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m jꜣṯ
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r jꜣṯ
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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| perfect
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jꜣṯ.n
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consecutive
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jꜣṯ.jn
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| terminative
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jꜣṯt
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| perfective3
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jꜣṯ
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obligative1
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jꜣṯ.ḫr
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| imperfective
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jꜣṯ
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| prospective3
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jꜣṯ
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potentialis1
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jꜣṯ.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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jꜣṯ
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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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active
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passive
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| perfect
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jꜣṯ.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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jꜣṯ
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jꜣṯ
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jꜣṯ, jꜣṯw5, jꜣṯy5
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| imperfective
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jꜣṯ, jꜣṯy, jꜣṯw5
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jꜣṯ, jꜣṯj6, jꜣṯy6
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jꜣṯ, jꜣṯw5
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| prospective
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jꜣṯ, jꜣṯtj7
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jꜣṯtj4, jꜣṯt4
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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 jꜣṯ
Derived terms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 34.21–34.22
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9
