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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2ae gem.
- (intransitive) to be(come) little, small in size
- (intransitive, of children) to be(come) little, very young in age
- (intransitive, of siblings and offspring) to be(come) younger (relative to other siblings or offspring)
- (intransitive, of time) to be(come) short, brief
- (intransitive) to be(come) little, sparse, small in quantity
- (intransitive) to be(come) trifling, weak, unimportant
Inflection
Conjugation of ktt (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: kt, geminated stem: ktt
| 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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ktt8
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ktt
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kttt
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ktt, kt
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ktt, kt
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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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ktt, kt
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ḥr ktt
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m ktt
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r ktt
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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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ktt.n, kt.n
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consecutive
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kt.jn
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| terminative
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kttt
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| perfective3
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kt
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obligative1
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ktt.ḫr
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| imperfective
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ktt
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| prospective3
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ktt
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potentialis1
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kt.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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kt
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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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kt.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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kt
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kt
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kt, ktw5, kty5
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| imperfective
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ktt, ktty, kttw5
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ktt, kttj6, ktty6
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ktt, kttw5
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| prospective
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kt, kttj7
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ktttj4, kttt4
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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.
- kt before suffix pronouns.
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Noun
f
- little girl
Inflection
Declension of ktt (feminine)
Noun
f
- louse
Inflection
Declension of ktt (feminine)
Descendants
References
- “ktt (lemma ID 165880)”, “ktt (lemma ID 165890)”, “kt.t (lemma ID 169320)”, and “kt.t (lemma ID 165910)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 147.2–147.17
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 287
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 358.
- ^ de Buck, Adriaan (1954) The Egyptian Coffin Texts, volume V, page 281 c
