kfj

Egyptian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to remove clothing or bandages from (a part of the body); to bare, to expose, to uncover [since the Pyramid Texts]
   • c. 1401 BCE, Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, closing text, line 12:

     kf n.k dbꜥ tꜣ rmn.f

     May the Sealer of the Earth bare his shoulder to you.

2. (transitive) to reveal, to disclose (something hidden) in general [since the Pyramid Texts]
3. (transitive) to clear (the sky) of clouds [since the First Intermediate Period]
4. (transitive) to take off or remove (a piece of clothing)
5. (transitive, rare) to strip, to plunder, to despoil [Middle Kingdom]
6. (transitive) to open [Greco-Roman Period]

   Synonyms: wbꜣ, wpj, wn, zn, swn

Inflection

Conjugation of kfj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: kf, geminated stem: kff

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural kft, kfj kfw, kf kft, kfwt, kfyt kf kf, kfy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 kf8, kff8 ḥr kft, ḥr kfj m kft, m kfj r kft, r kfj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect kf.n kfw, kf, kfy consecutive kf.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative kft, kfyt perfective3 kf active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 kf.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective kf, kfy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 kfw, kf, kfy kfw, kf, kfy potentialis1 kf.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive kf, kfy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect kf.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective kfw1, kfy, kf active + .tj1, .tw2 kf kfy, kf imperfective kff, kffy, kffw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 kff, kffj6, kffy6 kff, kffw5 prospective kfw1, kfy, kf, kftj7 — kfwtj1 4, kftj4, kft4 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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of kfj  

kfꜣ

[since the 18th Dynasty]

Since the 18th Dynasty this word is generally written kfꜣ.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 119.4–119.19, 120.2–120.3, 121.1, 121
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 285