ꜣbb

Egyptian

Etymology

Related to ꜣb (“to avoid, to cease, to separate from”).

Pronunciation

(reconstructed Late Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ʔəˈβap/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑbɛb/
- Conventional anglicization: abeb

Verb

2ae gem.

(Late Egyptian, intransitive, with r) to separate from, to move away

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣbb (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: ꜣb, geminated stem: ꜣbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ꜣbb⁸	ꜣbb	ꜣbbt	ꜣbb, ꜣb	ꜣbb, ꜣb

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ꜣbb, ꜣb	ḥr ꜣbb	m ꜣbb	r ꜣbb

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
aspect / mood	active	aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜣbb.n, ꜣb.n	consecutive	ꜣb.jn
terminative	ꜣbbt	consecutive	ꜣb.jn
perfective³	ꜣb	obligative¹	ꜣbb.ḫr
imperfective	ꜣbb	obligative¹	ꜣbb.ḫr
prospective³	ꜣbb	potentialis¹	ꜣb.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜣb	potentialis¹	ꜣb.kꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣb.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣb	ꜣb	ꜣb, ꜣbw⁵, ꜣby⁵
imperfective	ꜣbb, ꜣbby, ꜣbbw⁵	ꜣbb, ꜣbbj⁶, ꜣbby⁶	ꜣbb, ꜣbbw⁵
prospective	ꜣb, ꜣbtj⁷	ꜣbbtj⁴, ꜣbbt⁴

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 ꜣb before suffix pronouns.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbb

ꜣbb

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 8.4
Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 5