mtr

See also: MTR and mtr'

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛtɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: meter

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to witness

Inflection

Conjugation of mtr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: mtr, geminated stem: mtrr

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural mtr mtrw, mtr mtrt mtr mtr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 mtr ḥr mtr m mtr r mtr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect mtr.n mtrw, mtr consecutive mtr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative mtrt perfective3 mtr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 mtr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective mtr active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 mtr mtrr potentialis1 mtr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive mtr active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect mtr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective mtr active + .tj1, .tw2 mtr mtr, mtrw5, mtry5 imperfective mtr, mtry, mtrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 mtr, mtrj6, mtry6 mtr, mtrw5 prospective mtr, mtrtj7 — mtrtj4, mtrt4 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.

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 36.