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Definition 2024
sp(j)
sp(j)
Egyptian
Verb
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Inflection
| spj: Third-weak root (3ae-inf) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base Stem: | sp | Geminated Stem: | spp | Imperative: | sp (13) |
| Suffix Forms (1) | Participles(10) | ||||
| Active | Passive | Active | Passive | Relative | |
| Perfective (2) | sp | sp.tw | sp | sp(y) | sp(y) |
| Imperfective (3) | sp(y) | sp(y).tw | spp(j) / sppy | spp(w) (11) | spp(w) (11) |
| Perfect | sp.n | sp.n.tw | ------ | ------ | sp.n |
| Prospective | sp(w) / sp(y) | sp(w) / sp(y) | sp(w)tj.fj (9) | ------ | ------ |
| Subjunctive | sp(y) | sp(y).tw | Stative | ||
| Passive | ------ | sp(w) / spy | Singular | Plural | |
| "Consequential"(4) | sp.jn | sp.jn.tw | 1st Person | sp.kw / (spp.kw) | sp.wjn / (spp.wjn) |
| "Necessitive"(5) | sp.ḫr | sp.ḫr.tw | 2nd person | sp.tj / spp.tj | sp.tjwjn / spp.tjwjn |
| "Future Consequential"(6) | sp.k3 | sp.k3.tw | 3rd person (masc) | sp.w / spy / spp.w | sp.wj / spp.wj |
| Old Perfect (7) | spt / spyt | spyt / spt | 3rd person (fem) | sp.tj / spp.tj | |
| Infinitival forms | |||||
| Infinitive | spt | Negatival Complement | sp(w) | Complementary Infinitive(8) | sp(w)t / spyt |
1) All of these forms can display their subject using the suffix pronouns (and they frequently do)
2) Otherwise known as the "Indicative"
3) Otherwise known as the "Circumstantial"
4) No formal name - usually referred to as the "sḏm.jn"
5) No formal name - usually referred to as the "sḏm.ḫr"
6) No formal name - usually referred to as the "sḏm.k3"
7) Otherwise known as the "sḏmt"
8) Rare & Archaic
9) Declines using third person suffix pronouns: masc.: .fj, fem: .sj & plural: .sn
10) Decline like adjectives
11) -w only appears in the masculine singular
13) Sometimes spy in the plural
References
A. M. Blackman, The Rock Tombs of Meir, Vol. 2, pl. 4