jꜣṯ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑt͡ʃ/
  • Conventional anglicization: iatj

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) injured, to be(come) mutilated
2. (intransitive) to hurt, to be(come) painful
3. (intransitive) to be(come) distorted
4. (intransitive) to be(come) missing, to abate or disappear (+ r: from)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jꜣṯ jꜣṯw, jꜣṯ jꜣṯt jꜣṯ jꜣṯ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jꜣṯ ḥr jꜣṯ m jꜣṯ r jꜣṯ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect jꜣṯ.n consecutive jꜣṯ.jn terminative jꜣṯt perfective3 jꜣṯ obligative1 jꜣṯ.ḫr imperfective jꜣṯ prospective3 jꜣṯ potentialis1 jꜣṯ.kꜣ subjunctive jꜣṯ verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect jꜣṯ.n — — perfective jꜣṯ jꜣṯ jꜣṯ, jꜣṯw5, jꜣṯy5 imperfective jꜣṯ, jꜣṯy, jꜣṯw5 jꜣṯ, jꜣṯj6, jꜣṯy6 jꜣṯ, jꜣṯw5 prospective jꜣṯ, jꜣṯtj7 jꜣṯtj4, jꜣṯt4 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 jꜣṯ  

jꜣṯ	jꜣt	jꜣṯ

Derived terms

• jꜣtjw
• jꜣṯw
• sjꜣt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 34.21–34.22
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 9