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Egyptian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Pronoun
f sg 2. stressed (‘independent’) pronoun
- alternative spelling of ntṯ (“you”)
Etymology 2
Various uses of the feminine form of the relative adjective ntj.
Pronunciation
Adjective
f
- feminine singular of ntj
Inflection
1 Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
2 From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.
Noun
f
- (introducing a direct relative clause) she who is, one who is, that which is
- (introducing an indirect relative clause, with a later resumptive pronoun) she for whom, one for whom, one such that, that for which
- (without a following relative clause) she who exists, one who exists, that which exists
Usage notes
See the usage notes at ntj.
Inflection
See under the adjective above.
Derived terms
Conjunction
- (introducing a noun clause) serves as a complementizer to convert a verbal or nonverbal sentence with realis mood into a subordinated noun clause; that
- Synonym: wnt
Usage notes
When followed by a clause with a pronominal subject and adverbial predicate, the subject takes the form of a suffix pronoun attached to ntt. The exceptions to this are clauses with a first-person singular subject, which use the dependent pronoun wj, and sometimes a third-person subject, which can use the dependent pronoun st. Other subjects rarely also appear in dependent-pronoun form.
Subordinate complement clauses are typically unmarked if their mood is irrealis and marked with ntt, wnt, or jwt only if modally realis.
Derived terms
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 52, 135, 141–142, 195.
- Uljas, Sami (2007) The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses: A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language
