njtjt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 5-lit.

1. (intransitive) to stammer
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 13–17:

     jꜥ tw jmj mw ḥr ḏbꜥw.k jḫ wšb.k wšd.t(w).k mdw.k n nswt jb.k m-ꜥ.k wšb.k nn njtjt

     Wash yourself, put water on your fingers,
     so you might answer when you are addressed, speak to the king with your mind in your possession, and answer without stammering.

Inflection

Conjugation of njtjt (quinquiliteral / 5-lit. / 5rad.) — base stem: njtjt

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
njtjt	njtjtw, njtjt	njtjtt	njtjt	njtjt

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	njtjt.n	consecutive	njtjt.jn
terminative	njtjtt
perfective3	njtjt	obligative1	njtjt.ḫr
imperfective	njtjt
prospective3	njtjtw, njtjt	potentialis1	njtjt.kꜣ
subjunctive	njtjt

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	njtjt.n	—	—
perfective	njtjt	njtjt	njtjt, njtjtw5, njtjty5
imperfective	njtjt, njtjty, njtjtw5	njtjt, njtjtj6, njtjty6	njtjt, njtjtw5
prospective	njtjt, njtjttj7	njtjtwtj1 4, njtjttj4, njtjtt4
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

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 162.