ꜣj

Egyptian

2ae inf.

The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
1. (intransitive) to lament
2. (intransitive) to be broken by pain

Conjugation of ꜣj (second weak / 2ae inf. / II. inf.) — base stem: ꜣj

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ꜣj	ꜣjw, ꜣj	ꜣjt	ꜣj, j.ꜣj	ꜣj, j.ꜣj

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ꜣj	ḥr ꜣj	m ꜣj	r ꜣj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣj.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣj	ꜣj	ꜣj², ꜣjw^{2 5}, ꜣjy^{2 5}
imperfective	ꜣj, ꜣjy, ꜣjw⁵	ꜣj, ꜣjj⁶, ꜣjy⁶	ꜣj, ꜣjw⁵
prospective	ꜣj, ꜣjtj⁷	ꜣjtj⁴, ꜣjt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣj

ꜣjw

Meeks, Dimitri (2010) Dictionnaire égyptien ancien-français, Fascicule 1: ꜣ-ꜣbḏw, Montpellier: Institut d’Égyptologie François Daumas, page 6