ftft

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /fɛtfɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: fetfet

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive, of people or fish) to leap, to spring
2. (intransitive, of hearts) to beat strongly or quickly, to palpitate

Inflection

Conjugation of ftft (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ftft

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ftft	ftftw, ftft	ftftt	ftft	ftft

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ftft.n	consecutive	ftft.jn
terminative	ftftt
perfective3	ftft	obligative1	ftft.ḫr
imperfective	ftft
prospective3	ftftw, ftft	potentialis1	ftft.kꜣ
subjunctive	ftft

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ftft.n	—	—
perfective	ftft	ftft	ftft, ftftw5, ftfty5
imperfective	ftft, ftfty, ftftw5	ftft, ftftj6, ftfty6	ftft, ftftw5
prospective	ftft, ftfttj7	ftftwtj1 4, ftfttj4, ftftt4
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.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 581.3–581.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 99