bꜣk

Egyptian
FWOTD – 19 May 2021

Pronunciation
 
  • (noun): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈbaːʀak/ → /ˈbaːʀak/ → /ˈbaːʔək/ → /ˈβoːʔək/

Verb
bAk
D40

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to work (+ m: on (something); + n: for (someone))
  2. (intransitive) to render service
  3. (intransitive) to pay taxes
  4. (transitive) to produce or improve, to work

Inflection
Conjugation of bꜣk (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: bꜣk, geminated stem: bꜣkk
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
bꜣk
 bꜣkw, bꜣk
 bꜣkt
 bꜣk
 bꜣk
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
bꜣk
 ḥr bꜣk
 m bꜣk
 r bꜣk
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect bꜣk.n
 bꜣkw, bꜣk
 consecutive bꜣk.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative bꜣkt
perfective3 bꜣk
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 bꜣk.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective bꜣk
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 bꜣk
 bꜣkk
 potentialis1 bꜣk.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive bꜣk
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect bꜣk.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective bꜣk
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 bꜣk
 bꜣk, bꜣkw5, bꜣky5
imperfective bꜣk, bꜣky, bꜣkw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 bꜣk, bꜣkj6, bꜣky6
 bꜣk, bꜣkw5
prospective bꜣk, bꜣktj7
 — bꜣktj4, bꜣkt4
  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.

Derived terms

Noun
bAk
H_SPACE		 A1

 m

  1. (male) servant

Inflection
Declension of bꜣk (masculine)
singular bꜣk
dual bꜣkwj
plural bꜣkw

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Demotic: bk (bk)

References
  • Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 41
  1. Osing, Jürgen (1976) Die Nominalbildung des Ägyptischen, Mainz/Rhein: von Zabern, →ISBN, pages 213, 394, 751
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