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
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. 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