ꜣfj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑfi/
  • Conventional anglicization: afi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to gorge oneself, to be greedy [Coffin Texts to Late Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣfj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜣf, geminated stem: ꜣff

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣft, ꜣfj	ꜣfw, ꜣf	ꜣft, ꜣfwt, ꜣfyt	ꜣf	ꜣf, ꜣfy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜣf8, ꜣff8	ḥr ꜣft, ḥr ꜣfj	m ꜣft, m ꜣfj	r ꜣft, r ꜣfj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜣf.n	consecutive	ꜣf.jn
terminative	ꜣft, ꜣfyt
perfective3	ꜣf	obligative1	ꜣf.ḫr
imperfective	ꜣf, ꜣfy
prospective3	ꜣfw, ꜣf, ꜣfy	potentialis1	ꜣf.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜣf, ꜣfy

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣf.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣfw1, ꜣfy, ꜣf	ꜣf	ꜣfy, ꜣf
imperfective	ꜣff, ꜣffy, ꜣffw5	ꜣff, ꜣffj6, ꜣffy6	ꜣff, ꜣffw5
prospective	ꜣfw1, ꜣfy, ꜣf, ꜣftj7	ꜣfwtj1 4, ꜣftj4, ꜣft4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣfj  

ꜣꜥfj	ꜥfj	ꜥꜣfj
[20th Dynasty]	[21th Dynasty]	[c. 21st Dynasty]
from the Instruction of Amenemope	from Papyrus Sallier I	from the Instruction of Ani

Related terms

• ꜣfꜣf
• ꜣfꜥ

 

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥfꜥ
  • Coptic: ⲁϥ (af) in ⲁϥ-ϫⲓⲣ (af-čir)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 3, 182.12
• Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 65
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 17
• Borghouts, J. F. and van der Plas, Dirk (1998) Coffin Texts Word Index, Utrecht and Paris, p. 2