msj
Egyptian
Etymology
Related to ms (“child”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /mɛsi/
- Conventional anglicization: mesi
Verb
3ae inf.
- (transitive) to give birth to
- (transitive) to form, to create, to produce
Inflection
Conjugation of msj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ms, geminated stem: mss
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
mst, msj | msw, ms | mst, mswt, msyt | ms | ms, msy |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
ms8, mss8 | ḥr mst, ḥr msj | m mst, m msj | r mst, r msj |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | ms.n | msw, ms, msy | consecutive | ms.jn | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | mst, msyt | ||||
perfective3 | ms | active + .tj1, .tw2 | obligative | ms.ḫr | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | ms, msy | active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | msw, ms, msy | msw, ms, msy | potentialis | ms.kꜣ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | ms, msy | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | ms.n | active + .tj1, .tw2 | — | — |
perfective | msw1, msy, ms | active + .tj1, .tw2 | ms | msy, ms |
imperfective | mss, mssy, mssw5 | active + .tj1, .tw2 | mss, mssj6, mssy6 | mss, mssw5 |
prospective | msw1, msy, ms, mstj7 | — | mswtj1 4, mstj4, mst4 | |
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of msj
msj | msj | msj | msj | msj | msj | ||||||||||||||||||||
[Old Kingdom] | [Old Kingdom] | [since the Old Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] | [since the end of the New Kingdom] | |||||||||||||||||||||
most common Old Kingdom form | occasional | rare | in papyri |
Derived terms
- jꜥḥ-ms
- ptḥ-ms
- mswt
- rꜥ-ms
- rꜥ-ms-sw
- smsj
- ḏḥwtj-ms
- ḏḏw-ms
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 280.