njtjt

Egyptian

5-lit.

(intransitive) to stammer
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 14–17:
  
  jḫ wšb.k wšd.t(w).k mdw.k n nswt jb.k m-ꜥ.k wšb.k nn njtjt
  Then you can answer when you are addressed, you can speak to the king with your mind in your possession, and you can answer without stammering.

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	njtjt.n	—	—
perfective	njtjt	njtjt	njtjt, njtjtw⁵, njtjty⁵
imperfective	njtjt, njtjty, njtjtw⁵	njtjt, njtjtj⁶, njtjty⁶	njtjt, njtjtw⁵
prospective	njtjt, njtjttj⁷	njtjtwtj^{1 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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

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.