mṯꜣ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mt"

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛt͡ʃɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: metja

Noun

 m

1. penis [since the New Kingdom]

Inflection

Declension of mṯꜣ (masculine)

singular	mṯꜣ
dual	mṯꜣwj
plural	mṯꜣw

Synonyms

• bꜣḥ
• bḏꜣ
• nfr
• ḥnn

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to challenge, to taunt, to flout

Inflection

Conjugation of mṯꜣ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: mṯꜣ, geminated stem: mṯꜣꜣ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
mṯꜣ	mṯꜣw, mṯꜣ	mṯꜣt	mṯꜣ	mṯꜣ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	mṯꜣ.n	mṯꜣw, mṯꜣ	consecutive	mṯꜣ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	mṯꜣt
perfective3	mṯꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	mṯꜣ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	mṯꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	mṯꜣ	mṯꜣꜣ	potentialis1	mṯꜣ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	mṯꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	mṯꜣ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	mṯꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	mṯꜣ	mṯꜣ, mṯꜣw5, mṯꜣy5
imperfective	mṯꜣ, mṯꜣy, mṯꜣw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	mṯꜣ, mṯꜣj6, mṯꜣy6	mṯꜣ, mṯꜣw5
prospective	mṯꜣ, mṯꜣtj7	—	mṯꜣtj4, mṯꜣt4
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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 175