nꜥj
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nɑːi/
- Conventional anglicization: nai
Verb
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3ae inf.
- (transitive) to travel by boat, to sail
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 172–173:
- nꜥt pw jr.n.n m ḫd r ẖnw n(j) jtj
- What we did was to sail north to the home of the sovereign.
Inflection
editConjugation of nꜥj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: nꜥ
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
nꜥt, nꜥj |
nꜥw, nꜥ |
nꜥt, nꜥwt, nꜥyt |
nꜥ |
nꜥ, nꜥy |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
nꜥ8 |
ḥr nꜥt, ḥr nꜥj |
m nꜥt, m nꜥj |
r nꜥt, r nꜥj |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | nꜥ.n |
nꜥw, nꜥ, nꜥy |
consecutive | nꜥ.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | nꜥt, nꜥyt | ||||
perfective3 | nꜥ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative1 | nꜥ.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | nꜥ, nꜥy |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | nꜥw, nꜥ, nꜥy |
nꜥw, nꜥ, nꜥy |
potentialis1 | nꜥ.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | nꜥ, nꜥy |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | nꜥ.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
perfective | nꜥw1, nꜥy, nꜥ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
nꜥ |
nꜥy, nꜥ |
imperfective | nꜥ, nꜥy, nꜥw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
nꜥ, nꜥj6, nꜥy6 |
nꜥ, nꜥw5 |
prospective | nꜥw1, nꜥy, nꜥ, nꜥtj7 |
— | nꜥwtj1 4, nꜥtj4, nꜥt4 | |
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References
edit- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 165, 215.