ktt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (verb): (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /kaˈtat/ → /kaˈtaʔ/ → /kəˈtaʔ/ → /kəˈtaʔ/

• (verb): (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /kaˈtat/
• (verb): (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /kaˈtaʔ/
• (verb): (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /kəˈtaʔ/
• (verb): (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /kəˈtaʔ/

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

Verb

 2ae gem.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) little, small in size
2. (intransitive, of children) to be(come) little, very young in age
3. (intransitive, of siblings and offspring) to be(come) younger (relative to other siblings or offspring)
4. (intransitive, of time) to be(come) short, brief
5. (intransitive) to be(come) little, sparse, small in quantity
6. (intransitive) to be(come) trifling, weak, unimportant

Inflection

Conjugation of ktt (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: kt, geminated stem: ktt

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ktt8 ktt kttt ktt, kt ktt, kt ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ktt, kt ḥr ktt m ktt r ktt suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ktt.n, kt.n consecutive kt.jn terminative kttt perfective3 kt obligative1 ktt.ḫr imperfective ktt prospective3 ktt potentialis1 kt.kꜣ subjunctive kt verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect kt.n — — perfective kt kt kt, ktw5, kty5 imperfective ktt, ktty, kttw5 ktt, kttj6, ktty6 ktt, kttw5 prospective kt, kttj7 ktttj4, kttt4 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 kt before suffix pronouns.

Noun

 f

1. little girl

Inflection

Declension of ktt (feminine)

singular	ktt
dual	kttj
plural	ktwt

Noun

 f

1. louse
   • c. 2050 BCE – 1950 BCE, Coffin Texts, version B1Bo^a (outer coffin of Djehutinakht, Boston 20.1822–27) spell 433:

     jj ktt zpwj snwj mwt wšꜥ ktt

     The louse comes, the louse comes dead, the louse is chewed.

Inflection

Declension of ktt (feminine)

singular	ktt
dual	kttj
plural	ktwt

Descendants

• >? Bohairic Coptic: ⲕⲁⲕⲑⲓ (kakthi), ⲕⲁⲕⲧⲓ (kakti), ⲭⲁⲕⲑⲓ (khakthi)
• >? Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲁⲕⲧⲉ (kakte), ⲕⲁⲧⲕⲉ (katke)

References

• “ktt (lemma ID 165880)”, “ktt (lemma ID 165890)”, “kt.t (lemma ID 169320)”, and “kt.t (lemma ID 165910)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 147.2–147.17
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 287
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 358.