njs
See also: NJS
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /nis/
- Conventional anglicization: nis
Verb
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3-lit.
- (intransitive, with n or r, or transitive) to call to or call upon [since the Pyramid Texts]
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.3–2.4:
- rdj.jn ṯꜣt(j) njs.t(w) nꜣy.f n(j) ẖrdw m ḫt ꜥrq.f sḫr r(m)ṯw bj(ꜣ)t.sn m jjt ḥr.f
- So the vizier let his children be summoned after he understood the conduct of people, their character being what had come upon him.
Inflection
editConjugation of njs (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: njs, geminated stem: njss
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
njs |
njsw, njs |
njst |
njs |
njs |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
njs |
ḥr njs |
m njs |
r njs |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | njs.n |
njsw, njs |
consecutive | njs.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | njst | ||||
perfective3 | njs |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative1 | njs.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | njs |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | njs |
njss |
potentialis1 | njs.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | njs |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | njs.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
perfective | njs |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
njs |
njs, njsw5, njsy5 |
imperfective | njs, njsy, njsw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
njs, njsj6, njsy6 |
njs, njsw5 |
prospective | njs, njstj7 |
— | njstj4, njst4 | |
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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 251, 394.