ꜣbj

Egyptian

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Semitic *ʔabay-. Compare Hebrew אבה (ʾāḇā, “to be willing”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑbi/
  • Conventional anglicization: abi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to desire, to want, to long for (a thing, a person, or a place) [since the Middle Kingdom]
2. (transitive or rarely intransitive with n or r, with following infinitive) to want to do [since the Middle Kingdom]
3. (intransitive, with m, Late Egyptian) to take pleasure at, to be happy about [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜣb, geminated stem: ꜣbb

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜣbt, ꜣbj ꜣbw, ꜣb ꜣbt, ꜣbwt, ꜣbyt ꜣb ꜣb, ꜣby ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜣb8, ꜣbb8 ḥr ꜣbt, ḥr ꜣbj m ꜣbt, m ꜣbj r ꜣbt, r ꜣbj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ꜣb.n ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby consecutive ꜣb.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ꜣbt, ꜣbyt perfective3 ꜣb active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ꜣb.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ꜣb, ꜣby active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby ꜣbw, ꜣb, ꜣby potentialis1 ꜣb.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ꜣb, ꜣby active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ꜣb.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ꜣbw1, ꜣby, ꜣb active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜣb ꜣby, ꜣb imperfective ꜣbb, ꜣbby, ꜣbbw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜣbb, ꜣbbj6, ꜣbby6 ꜣbb, ꜣbbw5 prospective ꜣbw1, ꜣby, ꜣb, ꜣbtj7 — ꜣbwtj1 4, ꜣbtj4, ꜣbt4 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 ꜣbj  

ꜣbj	ꜣbj	ꜣbw	ꜣbj	ꜣbj	jbj	jꜣbj	ꜣbj
[New Kingdom, Greco-Roman Period]	[New Kingdom, Greco-Roman Period]	[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
		in hieratic

Derived terms

• ꜣbꜣb
• n ꜣbw
• n ꜣbb
• r ꜣbb

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 171.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 6.24–7.7
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
• Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pages 7–8