mhj

See also: mḥj

Egyptian

3ae inf.

(intransitive, of the heart/mind) to be(come) forgetful [Middle Kingdom to Late Period]
(intransitive, with ḥr) to forget, to no longer know (something)
(intransitive, with ḥr) to forget, to no longer recognize (someone)

This verb is almost always found negated.

Conjugation of mhj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: mh, geminated stem: mhh

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
mht, mhj	mhw, mh	mht, mhwt, mhyt	mh	mh, mhy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
mh⁸, mhh⁸	ḥr mht, ḥr mhj	m mht, m mhj	r mht, r mhj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	mh.n	—	—
perfective	mhw¹, mhy, mh	mh	mhy, mh
imperfective	mhh, mhhy, mhhw⁵	mhh, mhhj⁶, mhhy⁶	mhh, mhhw⁵
prospective	mhw¹, mhy, mh, mhtj⁷	mhwtj^{1 4}, mhtj⁴, mht⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of mhj

mhj

mhꜣj

[Middle Kingdom]

[since the 18th Dynasty]

[19th/20th Dynasty]

in hieratic

“mhi̯ (lemma ID 73070)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 113.7–113.11
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 112
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 376.