ꜣj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb
AiA2

 2ae inf.

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

Inflection
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
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ꜣj.n
 consecutive ꜣj.jn
terminative ꜣjt
perfective3 ꜣj
 obligative1 ꜣj.ḫr
imperfective ꜣj
prospective3 ꜣjw1, ꜣj
 potentialis1 ꜣj.kꜣ
subjunctive ꜣj
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ꜣj.n
 — —
perfective ꜣj
 ꜣj
 ꜣj2, ꜣjw2 5, ꜣjy2 5
imperfective ꜣj, ꜣjy, ꜣjw5
 ꜣj, ꜣjj6, ꜣjy6
 ꜣj, ꜣjw5
prospective ꜣj, ꜣjtj7
 ꜣjtj4, ꜣjt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣj  
AA2yw
ꜣjw

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