mtj

See also: MTJ

Egyptian edit

Pronunciation edit

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛti/
- Conventional anglicization: meti

Verb edit

3-lit.

(intransitive) to be(come) precise or exact
(intransitive, of people) to be(come) scrupulous or exact, to be(come) precise in knowing, judging, and acting correctly (+ n: for (someone), + m: in (a place))
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 1.1:
  
  wḏꜣ snḏw ḥz mt
  The deferential man is sound; the scrupulous man is honored.
(intransitive) to be(come) correct, the right one
(intransitive) to be(come) rightful, proper
(intransitive) to be(come) customary, usual
(intransitive, of seasons, offerings, festivals) to be(come) regular

Inflection edit

Conjugation of mtj (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: mtj

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
mtj	mtjw, mtj	mtjt	mtj	mtj

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
aspect / mood	active	aspect / mood	active
perfect	mtj.n	consecutive	mtj.jn
terminative	mtjt	consecutive	mtj.jn
perfective³	mtj	obligative¹	mtj.ḫr
imperfective	mtj	obligative¹	mtj.ḫr
prospective³	mtj	potentialis¹	mtj.kꜣ
subjunctive	mtj	potentialis¹	mtj.kꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	mtj.n	—	—
perfective	mtj	mtj	mtj, mtjw⁵, mtjy⁵
imperfective	mtj, mtjy, mtjw⁵	mtj, mtjj⁶, mtjy⁶	mtj, mtjw⁵
prospective	mtj, mtjtj⁷	mtjtj⁴, mtjt⁴
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.

Alternative forms edit

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mtj

mtr

mtj

Descendants edit

Coptic: ⲙⲁⲧⲉ (mate)

Noun edit

m

correctness, exactness, scrupulousness

Alternative forms edit

See under the verb above.

References edit

“mtj (lemma ID 400854)”, 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
“mtj (lemma ID 77420)”, 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
“mtj (lemma ID 77680)”, 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
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[4], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 168.1, 169, 173.1–174.4
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 120
Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 854
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 146