bꜣj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɑi/
  • Conventional anglicization: bai

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be damp [Medical Papyri]

Inflection

Conjugation of bꜣj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: bꜣ, geminated stem: bꜣꜣ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural bꜣt, bꜣj bꜣw, bꜣ bꜣt, bꜣwt, bꜣyt bꜣ bꜣ, bꜣy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 bꜣ8, bꜣꜣ8 ḥr bꜣt, ḥr bꜣj m bꜣt, m bꜣj r bꜣt, r bꜣj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect bꜣ.n consecutive bꜣ.jn terminative bꜣt, bꜣyt perfective3 bꜣ obligative1 bꜣ.ḫr imperfective bꜣ, bꜣy prospective3 bꜣw, bꜣ, bꜣy potentialis1 bꜣ.kꜣ subjunctive bꜣ, bꜣy verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect bꜣ.n — — perfective bꜣw1, bꜣy, bꜣ bꜣ bꜣy, bꜣ imperfective bꜣꜣ, bꜣꜣy, bꜣꜣw5 bꜣꜣ, bꜣꜣj6, bꜣꜣy6 bꜣꜣ, bꜣꜣw5 prospective bꜣw1, bꜣy, bꜣ, bꜣtj7 bꜣwtj1 4, bꜣtj4, bꜣt4 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.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 417.11–417.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 77