mhj

See also: mḥj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb
mD38
h		 nDs

 3ae inf.

  1. (intransitive, of the heart/mind) to be(come) forgetful [Middle Kingdom to Late Period]
  2. (intransitive, with ḥr) to forget, to no longer know (something)
  3. (intransitive, with ḥr) to forget, to no longer recognize (someone)

Usage notes

This verb is almost always found negated.

Inflection
Conjugation of mhj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: mh, geminated stem: mhh
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
mht, mhj
 mhw, mh
 mht, mhwt, mhyt
 mh
 mh, mhy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
mh8, mhh8
 ḥr mht, ḥr mhj
 m mht, m mhj
 r mht, r mhj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect mh.n
 consecutive mh.jn
terminative mht, mhyt
perfective3 mh
 obligative1 mh.ḫr
imperfective mh, mhy
prospective3 mhw, mh, mhy
 potentialis1 mh.kꜣ
subjunctive mh, mhy
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect mh.n
 — —
perfective mhw1, mhy, mh
 mh
 mhy, mh
imperfective mhh, mhhy, mhhw5
 mhh, mhhj6, mhhy6
 mhh, mhhw5
prospective mhw1, mhy, mh, mhtj7
 mhwtj1 4, mhtj4, mht4
  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.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mhj  
mh
nDs
mD38
h		 nDs
m&a h
nDs
mD38
h y		 nDs
ma
h y		 nDs
mahAnDs
mhj mhj mhj mhj mhj mhꜣj
[Middle Kingdom] [since the 18th Dynasty] [since the 18th Dynasty] [since the 18th Dynasty] [since the 18th Dynasty] [19th/20th Dynasty]
in hieratic

Synonyms

Derived terms

References
  • “mhi̯ (lemma ID 73070)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 113.7–113.11
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 112
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 376.
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