jdj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) senseless, to be(come) deaf and dumb

Inflection

Conjugation of jdj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: jd, geminated stem: jdd

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jdt, jdj jdw, jd jdt, jdwt, jdyt jd jd, jdy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jd8, jdd8 ḥr jdt, ḥr jdj m jdt, m jdj r jdt, r jdj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect jd.n consecutive jd.jn terminative jdt, jdyt perfective3 jd obligative1 jd.ḫr imperfective jd, jdy prospective3 jdw, jd, jdy potentialis1 jd.kꜣ subjunctive jd, jdy verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect jd.n — — perfective jdw1, jdy, jd jd jdy, jd imperfective jdd, jddy, jddw5 jdd, jddj6, jddy6 jdd, jddw5 prospective jdw1, jdy, jd, jdtj7 jdwtj1 4, jdtj4, jdt4 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

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 457.