Egyptian
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Pronunciation
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3ae inf.
- (intransitive, of the heart/mind) to be(come) forgetful [Middle Kingdom to Late Period]
- (intransitive, with ḥr) to forget, to no longer know (something)
- (intransitive, with ḥr) to forget, to no longer recognize (someone)
Usage notes
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This verb is almost always found negated.
Inflection
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Conjugation of mhj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: mh, geminated stem: mhh
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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mht, mhj
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mhw, mh
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mht, mhwt, mhyt
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mh
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mh, mhy
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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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mh.n
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consecutive
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mh.jn
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terminative
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mht, mhyt
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perfective3
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mh
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obligative1
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mh.ḫr
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imperfective
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mh, mhy
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prospective3
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mhw, mh, mhy
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potentialis1
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mh.kꜣ
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subjunctive
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mh, mhy
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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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mh.n
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—
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—
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perfective
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mhw1, mhy, mh
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mh
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mhy, mh
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imperfective
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mhh, mhhy, mhhw5
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mhh, mhhj6, mhhy6
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mhh, mhhw5
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prospective
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mhw1, mhy, mh, mhtj7
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mhwtj1 4, mhtj4, mht4
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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.
- Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.
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Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mhj
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mhj
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mhj
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mhj
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mhj
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mhj
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mhꜣj
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[Middle Kingdom]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[19th/20th Dynasty]
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in hieratic
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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References
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- “mhi̯ (lemma ID 73070)”, 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
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 113.7–113.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 112
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 376.