ftft

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /fɛtfɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: fetfet

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive, of people or fish) to leap, to spring
2. (intransitive, of hearts) to beat strongly or quickly, to palpitate

Inflection

Conjugation of ftft (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ftft

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ftft ftftw, ftft ftftt ftft ftft ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ftft ḥr ftft m ftft r ftft suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ftft.n consecutive ftft.jn terminative ftftt perfective3 ftft obligative1 ftft.ḫr imperfective ftft prospective3 ftftw, ftft potentialis1 ftft.kꜣ subjunctive ftft verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ftft.n — — perfective ftft ftft ftft, ftftw5, ftfty5 imperfective ftft, ftfty, ftftw5 ftft, ftftj6, ftfty6 ftft, ftftw5 prospective ftft, ftfttj7 ftftwtj1 4, ftfttj4, ftftt4 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.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 581.3–581.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 99