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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3ae inf.
- (transitive) to split, to open
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 81–82:
- jw wp.n.f r(ꜣ).f r.j jw.j ḥr ẖt.j m bꜣḥ.f
- He opened his mouth at me while I was on my belly before him.
Inflection
Conjugation of wpj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: wp, geminated stem: wpp
| 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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wpt, wpj
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wpw, wp
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wpt, wpwt, wpyt
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wp
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wp, wpy
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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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wp.n
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wpw, wp, wpy
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consecutive
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wp.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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wpt, wpyt
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| perfective3
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wp
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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wp.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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wp, wpy
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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wpw, wp, wpy
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wpw, wp, wpy
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potentialis1
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wp.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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wp, wpy
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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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wp.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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wpw1, wpy, wp
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wp
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wpy, wp
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| imperfective
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wpp, wppy, wppw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wpp, wppj6, wppy6
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wpp, wppw5
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| prospective
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wpw1, wpy, wp, wptj7
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—
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wpwtj1 4, wptj4, wpt4
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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.
- Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.
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References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 235.
