jꜣs

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iɑs/
  • Conventional anglicization: ias

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) bald

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jꜣs	jꜣsw, jꜣs	jꜣst	jꜣs	jꜣs

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
jꜣs	ḥr jꜣs	m jꜣs	r jꜣs

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	jꜣs.n	consecutive	jꜣs.jn
terminative	jꜣst
perfective3	jꜣs	obligative1	jꜣs.ḫr
imperfective	jꜣs
prospective3	jꜣs	potentialis1	jꜣs.kꜣ
subjunctive	jꜣs

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	jꜣs.n	—	—
perfective	jꜣs	jꜣs	jꜣs, jꜣsw5, jꜣsy5
imperfective	jꜣs, jꜣsy, jꜣsw5	jꜣs, jꜣsj6, jꜣsy6	jꜣs, jꜣsw5
prospective	jꜣs, jꜣstj7	jꜣstj4, jꜣst4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jꜣs  

js	js	ꜣs	ꜣs

Descendants

• ⇒ Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥ (ous, “bald person”)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 33.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 5, 9