ktt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (verb): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /kaˈtat/ → /kaˈtaʔ/ → /kəˈtaʔ/ → /kəˈtaʔ/

• (verb): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /kaˈtat/
• (verb): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /kaˈtaʔ/
• (verb): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /kəˈtaʔ/
• (verb): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /kəˈtaʔ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɛtɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: ketet

Verb

 2ae gem.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) little, small in size
2. (intransitive, of children) to be(come) little, very young in age
3. (intransitive, of siblings and offspring) to be(come) younger (relative to other siblings or offspring)
4. (intransitive, of time) to be(come) short, brief
5. (intransitive) to be(come) little, sparse, small in quantity
6. (intransitive) to be(come) trifling, weak, unimportant

Inflection

Conjugation of ktt (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: kt, geminated stem: ktt

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ktt8	ktt	kttt	ktt, kt	ktt, kt

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ktt, kt	ḥr ktt	m ktt	r ktt

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ktt.n, kt.n	consecutive	kt.jn
terminative	kttt
perfective3	kt	obligative1	ktt.ḫr
imperfective	ktt
prospective3	ktt	potentialis1	kt.kꜣ
subjunctive	kt

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	kt.n	—	—
perfective	kt	kt	kt, ktw5, kty5
imperfective	ktt, ktty, kttw5	ktt, kttj6, ktty6	ktt, kttw5
prospective	kt, kttj7	ktttj4, kttt4
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. kt before suffix pronouns.

Noun

 f

1. little girl

Inflection

Declension of ktt (feminine)

singular	ktt
dual	kttj
plural	ktwt

Noun

 f

1. louse
   • c. 2050 BCE – 1950 BCE, Coffin Texts, version B1Bo^a (outer coffin of Djehutinakht, Boston 20.1822–27) spell 433:

     jj ktt zpwj snwj mwt wšꜥ ktt

     The louse comes, the louse comes dead, the louse is chewed.

Inflection

Declension of ktt (feminine)

singular	ktt
dual	kttj
plural	ktwt

References

• “ktt (lemma ID 165880)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
• “ktt (lemma ID 165890)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
• “kt.t (lemma ID 169320)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[3], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
• “kt.t (lemma ID 165910)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[4], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[5], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 147.2–147.17
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 287
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 358.