bzj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɛzi/
  • Conventional anglicization: bezi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to emerge
2. (transitive, of people) to introduce (+ ḥr: to)
3. (transitive) to bring forth
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 20:

     nprj dj.f sm(w).f nb ḏf(ꜣ) n(j) ꜣḫt bs.f ssꜣw dj.f sw m tꜣw nb(w)

     Nepri gives all his plants, the provisions of the field, bringing forth satiety and giving it to all lands.

Inflection

Conjugation of bzj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: bz, geminated stem: bzz

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
bzt, bzj	bzw, bz	bzt, bzwt, bzyt	bz	bz, bzy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
bz8, bzz8	ḥr bzt, ḥr bzj	m bzt, m bzj	r bzt, r bzj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	bz.n	bzw, bz, bzy	consecutive	bz.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	bzt, bzyt
perfective3	bz	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	bz.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	bz, bzy	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	bzw, bz, bzy	bzw, bz, bzy	potentialis1	bz.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	bz, bzy	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	bz.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	bzw1, bzy, bz	active + .tj1, .tw2	bz	bzy, bz
imperfective	bzz, bzzy, bzzw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	bzz, bzzj6, bzzy6	bzz, bzzw5
prospective	bzw1, bzy, bz, bztj7	—	bzwtj1 4, bztj4, bzt4
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 bzj  

bsj	bsj

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 473.1–473.18, 474.5–474.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 84
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 316, 346.