ꜣṯj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑt͡ʃi/
  • Conventional anglicization: atji

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to nurse or rear (a child)
2. (transitive) to take care of, to nourish

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣṯj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜣṯ, geminated stem: ꜣṯṯ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜣṯt, ꜣṯj ꜣṯw, ꜣṯ ꜣṯt, ꜣṯwt, ꜣṯyt ꜣṯ ꜣṯ, ꜣṯy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜣṯ8, ꜣṯṯ8 ḥr ꜣṯt, ḥr ꜣṯj m ꜣṯt, m ꜣṯj r ꜣṯt, r ꜣṯj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ꜣṯ.n ꜣṯw, ꜣṯ, ꜣṯy consecutive ꜣṯ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ꜣṯt, ꜣṯyt perfective3 ꜣṯ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ꜣṯ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ꜣṯ, ꜣṯy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ꜣṯw, ꜣṯ, ꜣṯy ꜣṯw, ꜣṯ, ꜣṯy potentialis1 ꜣṯ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ꜣṯ, ꜣṯy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ꜣṯ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ꜣṯw1, ꜣṯy, ꜣṯ active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜣṯ ꜣṯy, ꜣṯ imperfective ꜣṯṯ, ꜣṯṯy, ꜣṯṯw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜣṯṯ, ꜣṯṯj6, ꜣṯṯy6 ꜣṯṯ, ꜣṯṯw5 prospective ꜣṯw1, ꜣṯy, ꜣṯ, ꜣṯtj7 — ꜣṯwtj1 4, ꜣṯtj4, ꜣṯt4 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 ꜣṯj  

ꜣtt	jtt
[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

Derived terms

• ꜣṯyt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 23.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 6
• Allen, James Peter (1984) The Inflection of the Verb in the Pyramid Texts, Malibu, California: Undena Publications, →ISBN, page 568