ꜥbꜥb

ꜥbꜥb

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːbɑːb/
  • Conventional anglicization: abab

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive) to boast (+ m: to boast of)

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥbꜥb (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ꜥbꜥb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥbꜥb	ꜥbꜥbw, ꜥbꜥb	ꜥbꜥbt	ꜥbꜥb	ꜥbꜥb

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜥbꜥb.n	consecutive	ꜥbꜥb.jn
terminative	ꜥbꜥbt
perfective3	ꜥbꜥb	obligative	ꜥbꜥb.ḫr
imperfective	ꜥbꜥb
prospective3	ꜥbꜥbw, ꜥbꜥb	potentialis	ꜥbꜥb.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜥbꜥb

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜥbꜥb.n	—	—
perfective	ꜥbꜥb	ꜥbꜥb	ꜥbꜥb, ꜥbꜥbw5, ꜥbꜥby5
imperfective	ꜥbꜥb, ꜥbꜥby, ꜥbꜥbw5	ꜥbꜥb, ꜥbꜥbj6, ꜥbꜥby6	ꜥbꜥb, ꜥbꜥbw5
prospective	ꜥbꜥb, ꜥbꜥbtj7	ꜥbꜥbwtj1 4, ꜥbꜥbtj4, ꜥbꜥbt4
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.

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 169.