mkj

Translingual

Symbol

mkj

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mokilese.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mokilese terms

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːkit/ → /ˈmiːkiʔ/ → /ˈmiːka/ → /ˈmiːkə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːkit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːkiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːka/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːkə/

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to protect

Inflection

Conjugation of mkj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: mk

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural mkt, mkj mkw, mk mkt, mkwt, mkyt mk mk, mky ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 mk8 ḥr mkt, ḥr mkj m mkt, m mkj r mkt, r mkj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect mk.n mkw, mk, mky consecutive mk.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative mkt, mkyt perfective3 mk active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 mk.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective mk, mky active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 mkw, mk, mky mkw, mk, mky potentialis1 mk.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive mk, mky active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect mk.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective mkw1, mky, mk active + .tj1, .tw2 mk mky, mk imperfective mk, mky, mkw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 mk, mkj6, mky6 mk, mkw5 prospective mkw1, mky, mk, mktj7 — mkwtj1 4, mktj4, mkt4 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.

Derived terms

• mkt

Descendants

• Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲓⲕⲓ (miki)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲓⲕⲉ (mike)

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 262.