Egyptian
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Etymology
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Possibly from Proto-Afroasiatic *ḳrb- or *ḳlb-; compare Arabic ق ل ب (q l b).[1]
Pronunciation
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3-lit.
- (intransitive) to turn off to the side
Inflection
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Conjugation of ḏnb (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḏnb, geminated stem: ḏnbb
| 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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ḏnb
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ḏnbw, ḏnb
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ḏnbt
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ḏnb
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ḏnb
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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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ḏnb
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ḥr ḏnb
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m ḏnb
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r ḏnb
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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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ḏnb.n
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consecutive
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ḏnb.jn
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| terminative
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ḏnbt
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| perfective3
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ḏnb
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obligative1
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ḏnb.ḫr
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| imperfective
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ḏnb
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| prospective3
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ḏnb
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potentialis1
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ḏnb.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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ḏnb
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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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ḏnb.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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ḏnb
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ḏnb
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ḏnb, ḏnbw5, ḏnby5
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| imperfective
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ḏnb, ḏnby, ḏnbw5
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ḏnb, ḏnbj6, ḏnby6
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ḏnb, ḏnbw5
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| prospective
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ḏnb, ḏnbtj7
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ḏnbtj4, ḏnbt4
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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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References
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- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 32
