ꜣj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑi/
  • Conventional anglicization: ai

Verb

 2ae inf.

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. (intransitive) to lament
   2. (intransitive) to be broken by pain

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣj (second weak / 2ae inf. / II. inf.) — base stem: ꜣj

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣj	ꜣjw, ꜣj	ꜣjt	ꜣj, j.ꜣj	ꜣj, j.ꜣj

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜣj	ḥr ꜣj	m ꜣj	r ꜣj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜣj.n	consecutive	ꜣj.jn
terminative	ꜣjt
perfective3	ꜣj	obligative1	ꜣj.ḫr
imperfective	ꜣj
prospective3	ꜣjw1, ꜣj	potentialis1	ꜣj.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜣj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣj.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣj	ꜣj	ꜣj2, ꜣjw2 5, ꜣjy2 5
imperfective	ꜣj, ꜣjy, ꜣjw5	ꜣj, ꜣjj6, ꜣjy6	ꜣj, ꜣjw5
prospective	ꜣj, ꜣjtj7	ꜣjtj4, ꜣjt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣj  

ꜣjw

References

• Meeks, Dimitri (2010) Dictionnaire égyptien ancien-français, Fascicule 1: ꜣ-ꜣbḏw, Montpellier: Institut d’Égyptologie François Daumas, page 6