sjꜥr

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ jꜥr (“to ascend”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛiɑːr/
  • Conventional anglicization: seiar

Verb

 caus. 3-lit.

1. Old Egyptian form of sꜥr (“to make ascend”)

Inflection

Conjugation of sjꜥr (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: sjꜥr

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural sjꜥr sjꜥrw, sjꜥr sjꜥrt sjꜥr sjꜥr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sjꜥr ḥr sjꜥr m sjꜥr r sjꜥr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sjꜥr.n sjꜥrw, sjꜥr consecutive sjꜥr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative sjꜥrt perfective3 sjꜥr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sjꜥr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sjꜥr active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 sjꜥrw, sjꜥr, sjꜥry sjꜥrw, sjꜥr, sjꜥry potentialis1 sjꜥr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sjꜥr active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sjꜥr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective sjꜥr active + .tj1, .tw2 sjꜥr sjꜥr, sjꜥrw5, sjꜥry5 imperfective sjꜥr, sjꜥry, sjꜥrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 sjꜥr, sjꜥrj6, sjꜥry6 sjꜥr, sjꜥrw5 prospective sjꜥr, sjꜥrtj7 — sjꜥrwtj1 4, sjꜥrtj4, sjꜥrt4 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

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 32.9–33.17