bꜣgj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʀkʼit/ → /ˈbiʀkʼiʔ/ → /ˈbiːkʼa/ → /ˈβiːkʼə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʀkʼit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʀkʼiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːkʼa/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈβiːkʼə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɑɡi/
  • Conventional anglicization: bagi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) weary

Inflection

Conjugation of bꜣgj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: bꜣg, geminated stem: bꜣgg

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
bꜣg	bꜣgw, bꜣgyw, bꜣg	bꜣgt, bꜣgwt, bꜣgyt	bꜣg	bꜣg, bꜣgy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
bꜣg8	ḥr bꜣg	m bꜣg	r bꜣg

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	bꜣg.n	consecutive	bꜣg.jn
terminative	bꜣgt
perfective3	bꜣg	obligative1	bꜣg.ḫr
imperfective	bꜣg, bꜣgy
prospective3	bꜣgw, bꜣg, bꜣgy	potentialis1	bꜣg.kꜣ
subjunctive	bꜣg, bꜣgy

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	bꜣg.n	—	—
perfective	bꜣgw1, bꜣgy, bꜣg	bꜣg	bꜣgy, bꜣg
imperfective	bꜣgg, bꜣggy, bꜣggw5	bꜣgg, bꜣggj6, bꜣggy6	bꜣgg, bꜣggw5
prospective	bꜣgw1, bꜣgy, bꜣg, bꜣgtj7	bꜣgwtj1 4, bꜣgtj4, bꜣgt4
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.

Derived terms

• ḥbs-bꜣg
• sbꜣgj

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 158.