jꜥj
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Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈjaːʕat/ → /ˈjaːʕaʔ/ → /ˈjaːʕa/ → /ˈjoːʕə/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iɑːi/
- Conventional anglicization: iai
Verb
3ae inf.
- (transitive) to wash (the body, limbs, clothes, tools, oneself, etc.)
(Late Egyptian) ― jꜥj ḏrt ― to wash one’s hand (before a meal)
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 13–17:
- jꜥ tw jmj mw ḥr ḏbꜥw.k jḫ wšb.k wšd.t(w).k mdw.k n nswt jb.k m-ꜥ.k wšb.k nn njtjt
- Wash yourself, put water on your fingers,
so you might answer when you are addressed, speak to the king with your mind in your possession, and answer without stammering.
- (transitive) to wash off, to wash out, to wash away (inscriptions, blood, etc.)
- (transitive) to treat (food) with water or milk [Medical papyri]
- (transitive) to wet (wooden rods) in order to bend (them)
Inflection
| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
| jꜥ8, jꜥꜥ8 |
ḥr jꜥt, ḥr jꜥj |
m jꜥt, m jꜥj |
r jꜥt, r jꜥj |
| suffix conjugation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
| aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
| perfect | jꜥ.n |
jꜥw, jꜥ, jꜥy |
consecutive | jꜥ.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
| active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
| terminative | jꜥt, jꜥyt | ||||
| perfective3 | jꜥ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative1 | jꜥ.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
| imperfective | jꜥ, jꜥy |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
| prospective3 | jꜥw, jꜥ, jꜥy |
jꜥw, jꜥ, jꜥy |
potentialis1 | jꜥ.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
| active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
| subjunctive | jꜥ, jꜥy |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
| verbal adjectives | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
| active | passive | active | passive | |
| perfect | jꜥ.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
| perfective | jꜥw1, jꜥy, jꜥ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
jꜥ |
jꜥy, jꜥ |
| imperfective | jꜥꜥ, jꜥꜥy, jꜥꜥw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
jꜥꜥ, jꜥꜥj6, jꜥꜥy6 |
jꜥꜥ, jꜥꜥw5 |
| prospective | jꜥw1, jꜥy, jꜥ, jꜥtj7 |
— | jꜥwtj1 4, jꜥtj4, jꜥt4 | |
| ||||
Conjugation of jꜥj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: jꜥ, geminated stem: jꜥꜥ
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: yꜥ, yꜥꜣ
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲱ (eiō)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲱⲓ (iōi), ⲓⲱ (iō)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓⲱⲱⲓ (iōōi)
- Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲩⲉ (eioue)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲱ (eiō), ⲉⲓⲟⲩⲉ (eioue)
References
- “jꜥi̯ (lemma ID 21550)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 39.2–39.17
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 190.
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