ꜥꜣꜥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːʔɑʔɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: aaa

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to spew, to ejaculate, to squirt (saliva, semen, etc.) [Pyramid Texts]
2. (transitive) to beget, to produce [Theban royal tombs]

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥꜣꜥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜥꜣꜥ, geminated stem: ꜥꜣꜥꜥ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜥꜣꜥ ꜥꜣꜥw, ꜥꜣꜥ ꜥꜣꜥt ꜥꜣꜥ ꜥꜣꜥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜥꜣꜥ ḥr ꜥꜣꜥ m ꜥꜣꜥ r ꜥꜣꜥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ꜥꜣꜥ.n ꜥꜣꜥw, ꜥꜣꜥ consecutive ꜥꜣꜥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ꜥꜣꜥt perfective3 ꜥꜣꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ꜥꜣꜥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ꜥꜣꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ꜥꜣꜥ ꜥꜣꜥꜥ potentialis1 ꜥꜣꜥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ꜥꜣꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ꜥꜣꜥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ꜥꜣꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜥꜣꜥ ꜥꜣꜥ, ꜥꜣꜥw5, ꜥꜣꜥy5 imperfective ꜥꜣꜥ, ꜥꜣꜥy, ꜥꜣꜥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ꜥꜣꜥ, ꜥꜣꜥj6, ꜥꜣꜥy6 ꜥꜣꜥ, ꜥꜣꜥw5 prospective ꜥꜣꜥ, ꜥꜣꜥtj7 — ꜥꜣꜥtj4, ꜥꜣꜥt4 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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣꜥ  

ꜥꜣꜥ	ꜥꜣꜥ
[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]

Derived terms

• ꜥꜣꜥy

Noun

 m

1. semen [Late Period]
2. a kind of noxious substance that acts as a factor of illness in the belly, heart, or limbs, said to be brought about by the dead or by malevolent gods [Medical papyri]

Usage notes

Compare also the later (Greco-Roman-Period) term ꜥꜥ (“spit, sweat”), perhaps to be identified with this word.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣꜥ  

ꜥꜣꜥ	ꜥꜣ

Noun

 m

1. (hapax) A symptom of illness relating to hair loss. The meaning of this term is uncertain. [Medical papyri]

Noun

 m

1. waterhole [Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥꜣꜥ (masculine)

singular	ꜥꜣꜥ
dual	ꜥꜣꜥwj
plural	ꜥꜣꜥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣꜥ  

ꜥꜣꜥ

[Middle Kingdom]

Noun

 m

1. (uncountable) strength, valor, potency [11th and 20th Dynasty]
   • c. 2100 BCE, Tomb of Ankhtifi, quoted in Gardiner 1948:

     nj pꜣ zp ḫpr ḏr rk rꜥ m ꜥꜣꜥ n(j) ⟨ḏꜣm n⟩ mḥ jb nḫt

     It has never happened since the time of Ra through the valor of the trusty victorious ⟨recruits⟩.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥꜣꜥ  

ꜥꜣꜥy	ꜥꜣy	ꜥꜣꜥy	ꜥꜣy	ꜥꜣꜥy
[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]

References

• “ꜥꜣꜥ (lemma ID 35160)”, “ꜥꜣꜥ (lemma ID 35170)”, “ꜥꜣꜥ (lemma ID 35180)”, “ꜥꜣꜥ (lemma ID 35190)”, “ꜥꜣꜥ (lemma ID 35140)”, and “ꜥꜣꜥ (lemma ID 850016)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 2.12, 166.15–166.18, 167.2–167.5
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 38
• Gardiner, Alan (1948) “The First Two Pages of the Wörterbuch” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 34, p. 17–18
• Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 1
• Deines, Hildegard von, Westendorf, Wolfhart (1961–1962) Wörterbuch der medizinischen Texte, volumes 1–2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, pages 129–133