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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) bald
Inflection
Conjugation of jꜣs (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: jꜣs, geminated stem: jꜣss
| 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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jꜣs
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jꜣsw, jꜣs
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jꜣst
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jꜣs
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jꜣs
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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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jꜣs
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ḥr jꜣs
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m jꜣs
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r jꜣs
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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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jꜣs.n
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consecutive
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jꜣs.jn
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| terminative
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jꜣst
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| perfective3
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jꜣs
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obligative1
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jꜣs.ḫr
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| imperfective
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jꜣs
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| prospective3
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jꜣs
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potentialis1
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jꜣs.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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jꜣs
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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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jꜣs.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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jꜣs
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jꜣs
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jꜣs, jꜣsw5, jꜣsy5
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| imperfective
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jꜣs, jꜣsy, jꜣsw5
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jꜣs, jꜣsj6, jꜣsy6
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jꜣs, jꜣsw5
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| prospective
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jꜣs, jꜣstj7
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jꜣstj4, jꜣst4
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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 jꜣs
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 33.8
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 5, 9
