bꜣgj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʀkʼit/ → /ˈbiʀkʼiʔ/ → /ˈbiːkʼa/ → /ˈβiːkʼə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʀkʼit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʀkʼiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːkʼa/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈβiːkʼə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɑɡi/
  • Conventional anglicization: bagi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) weary

Inflection

Conjugation of bꜣgj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: bꜣg, geminated stem: bꜣgg

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural bꜣg bꜣgw, bꜣgyw, bꜣg bꜣgt, bꜣgwt, bꜣgyt bꜣg bꜣg, bꜣgy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 bꜣg8 ḥr bꜣg m bꜣg r bꜣg suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect bꜣg.n consecutive bꜣg.jn terminative bꜣgt perfective3 bꜣg obligative1 bꜣg.ḫr imperfective bꜣg, bꜣgy prospective3 bꜣgw, bꜣg, bꜣgy potentialis1 bꜣg.kꜣ subjunctive bꜣg, bꜣgy verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect bꜣg.n — — perfective bꜣgw1, bꜣgy, bꜣg bꜣg bꜣgy, bꜣg imperfective bꜣgg, bꜣggy, bꜣggw5 bꜣgg, bꜣggj6, bꜣggy6 bꜣgg, bꜣggw5 prospective bꜣgw1, bꜣgy, bꜣg, bꜣgtj7 bꜣgwtj1 4, bꜣgtj4, bꜣgt4 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.

Derived terms

• ḥbs-bꜣg
• sbꜣgj

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 158.