s- (causative prefix) + jp (“to account, to assign”).
caus. 2-lit.
- (transitive) to deliver, to give over (a person) (+ n: to (another person, a fate, life, execution, etc.))
- (transitive) to assign, allot, deliver, entrust (a thing) (+ n: to (a person))
- (transitive) to check, examine, inspect (a person or thing)
- (transitive) to visit, to come see, to check in on (someone)
- (transitive) to manage, to organize (a land, a household, etc.)
- (intransitive) to check up, to check and revise something
Conjugation of sjp (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: sjp
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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sjpt, sjp
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sjpw, sjp
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sjpt
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sjp
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sjp
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‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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sjp
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ḥr sjp
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m sjp
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r sjp
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suffix conjugation
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aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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perfect
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sjp.n
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sjpw, sjp
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consecutive
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sjp.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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terminative
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sjpt
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perfective3
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sjp
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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sjp.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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imperfective
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sjp
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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prospective3
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sjpw, sjp, sjpy
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sjpw, sjp, sjpy
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potentialis1
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sjp.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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subjunctive
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sjp
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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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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passive
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active
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passive
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perfect
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sjp.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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perfective
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sjp
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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sjp
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sjp, sjpw5, sjpy5
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imperfective
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sjp, sjpy, sjpw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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sjp, sjpj6, sjpy6
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sjp, sjpw5
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prospective
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sjp, sjptj7
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—
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sjpwtj1 4, sjptj4, sjpt4
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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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sjp
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sp
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sjp
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jsp
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[Old Kingdom]
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[since the 18th Dynasty]
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[Book of the Dead]
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m
- inspection, check
Declension of sjp (masculine)
See under the verb above.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 35.2–36.2
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 212