ꜣbj
Egyptian
Etymology
Compare Hebrew אבה (ʾāḇā, “to be willing”).
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑbi/
- Conventional anglicization: abi
Verb
3ae inf.
- (transitive) to desire, to want, to long for (a thing, a person, or a place) [since the Middle Kingdom]
- (transitive or rarely intransitive with n or r, with following infinitive) to want to do [since the Middle Kingdom]
- (intransitive, with m, Late Egyptian) to take pleasure at, to be happy about [Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection
Conjugation of ꜣbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜣb, geminated stem: ꜣbb
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
ꜣbt, ꜣbj | ꜣbw, ꜣb | ꜣbt, ꜣbwt, ꜣbyt | ꜣb | ꜣb, ꜣby |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
ꜣb8, ꜣbb8 | ḥr ꜣbt, ḥr ꜣbj | m ꜣbt, m ꜣbj | r ꜣbt, r ꜣbj |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | ꜣb.n | ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby | consecutive | ꜣb.jn | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | ꜣbt, ꜣbyt | ||||
perfective3 | ꜣb | active + .tj1, .tw2 | obligative | ꜣb.ḫr | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | ꜣb, ꜣby | active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby | ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby | potentialis | ꜣb.kꜣ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | ꜣb, ꜣby | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | ꜣb.n | active + .tj1, .tw2 | — | — |
perfective | ꜣbw1, ꜣby, ꜣb | active + .tj1, .tw2 | ꜣb | ꜣby, ꜣb |
imperfective | ꜣbb, ꜣbby, ꜣbbw5 | active + .tj1, .tw2 | ꜣbb, ꜣbbj6, ꜣbby6 | ꜣbb, ꜣbbw5 |
prospective | ꜣbw1, ꜣby, ꜣb, ꜣbtj7 | — | ꜣbwtj1 4, ꜣbtj4, ꜣbt4 | |
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbj
ꜣbj | ꜣbj | ꜣbw | ꜣbj | ꜣbj | jbj | jꜣbj | ꜣbj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[New Kingdom, Greco-Roman Period] | [New Kingdom, Greco-Roman Period] | [New Kingdom] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
in papyri |
Derived terms
- ꜣbꜣb
- n ꜣbw
- n ꜣbb
- r ꜣbb
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 171.
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 6.24–7.7
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
- Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 7–8