ꜣbb

ꜣbb

Egyptian

Etymology

Related to ꜣb (“to avoid, to cease, to separate from”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 2ae gem.

1. (Late Egyptian, intransitive, with r) to separate from, to move away

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣbb (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: ꜣb, geminated stem: ꜣbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣbb8	ꜣbb	ꜣbbt	ꜣbb, ꜣb	ꜣbb, ꜣb

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜣbb, ꜣb	ḥr ꜣbb	m ꜣbb	r ꜣbb

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜣbb.n, ꜣb.n	consecutive	ꜣb.jn
terminative	ꜣbbt
perfective3	ꜣb	obligative	ꜣbb.ḫr
imperfective	ꜣbb
prospective3	ꜣbb	potentialis	ꜣb.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜣb

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣb.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣb	ꜣb	ꜣb, ꜣbw5, ꜣby5
imperfective	ꜣbb, ꜣbby, ꜣbbw5	ꜣbb, ꜣbbj6, ꜣbby6	ꜣbb, ꜣbbw5
prospective	ꜣb, ꜣbtj7	ꜣbbtj4, ꜣbbt4
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. ꜣb before suffix pronouns.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbb  

ꜣbb

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 8.4
• Lesko, Leonard; Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, volume 1, second edition, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 5