mz

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mz"

Egyptian

2-lit.

(transitive) to bring in, to introduce, to present with (+ n: bring in to, present (someone) with)
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 174–175:
  
  ꜥḥꜥ.n(.j) ꜥq.kw ḥr jtj mz.n.j n.f jnw pn jn.n.j m ẖnw n(j) jw pn
  Then I entered before the sovereign and presented him with those gifts (literally, “this getting”) that I had gotten within that island.

Conjugation of mz (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: mz, geminated stem: mzz

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
mz	mzw, mz	mzt	mz, j.mz	mz, j.mz

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
mz	ḥr mz	m mz	r mz

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	mz.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	mz	active + .tj¹, .tw²	mz	mzz, mzzj⁶, mz², mzw^{2 5}, mzy^{2 5}
imperfective	j.mz¹, mz, mzy, mzw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	j.mz¹, j.mzw^{1 5}, mz, mzj⁶, mzy⁶	mz, mzw⁵
prospective	mz, mztj⁷	—	mztj⁴, mzt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mz

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James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 155, 230.

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