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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) pure or clean
- c. 13th Dynasty, Naos of Hori, Kunsthistorisches Museum 186, Vienna:
- ḫt nbt nfrt wꜥbt ꜥnḫt nṯr jm
- all things good and pure on which a god lives.
- (reflexive) to purify or bathe (oneself)
Inflection
Conjugation of wꜥb (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wꜥb, geminated stem: wꜥbb
| 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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wꜥb
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wꜥbw, wꜥb
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wꜥbt
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wꜥb
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wꜥb
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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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wꜥb
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ḥr wꜥb
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m wꜥb
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r wꜥb
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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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wꜥb.n
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wꜥbw, wꜥb
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consecutive
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wꜥb.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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wꜥbt
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| perfective3
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wꜥb
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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wꜥb.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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wꜥb
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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wꜥb
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wꜥbb
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potentialis1
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wꜥb.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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wꜥb
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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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wꜥb.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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wꜥb
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wꜥb
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wꜥb, wꜥbw5, wꜥby5
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| imperfective
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wꜥb, wꜥby, wꜥbw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wꜥb, wꜥbj6, wꜥby6
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wꜥb, wꜥbw5
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| prospective
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wꜥb, wꜥbtj7
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—
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wꜥbtj4, wꜥbt4
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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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Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
- perfective active participle of wꜥb: pure, clean
Inflection
Declension of wꜥb (perfective active participle)
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masculine
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feminine
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| singular
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wꜥb
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wꜥbt
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| dual
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wꜥbwj
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wꜥbtj
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| plural
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wꜥbw
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wꜥbwt1, wꜥbt2
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- Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
- 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.
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Noun
m
- the lowest level of priest, literally a “cleaner”, responsible for cleaning and purifying the temple and preparing ritual offerings
- c. 2015 B.C.E., Meru, Stela of Meru (Turin 1447), textfield lines 2-4:
- j ꜥnḫw tp(j)w tꜣ
wnnt(j).s⟨n⟩ m šmsw n(j) ḫnt(j)-jmntjw n(j) wp-wꜣwt mrrw ꜥnḫ msḏḏw ḫpt
wꜥbw nw nṯr-ꜥꜣ ḥmw-nṯr nbw nw ꜣbḏw - O living ones who are on the earth,
who will be in the retinue of Khentamentiu and Wepwawet, who love life and hate dying,
cleaner-priests of the elder god and all priests of Abydos!
Inflection
Declension of wꜥb (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wꜥb
Descendants
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 58, 62, 74, 118, 362.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, pages 41, 54
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 30, 41
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