sjp

See also: SJP

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ jp (“to count, to assess, to assign”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛip/
  • Conventional anglicization: seip

Verb

 caus. 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to deliver, to give over (a person) (+ n: to (another person, a fate, life, execution, etc.))
2. (transitive) to assign, allot, deliver, entrust (a thing) (+ n: to (a person))
3. (transitive) to check, examine, inspect (a person or thing)
4. (transitive) to visit, to come see, to check in on (someone)
5. (transitive) to manage, to organize (a land, a household, etc.)
6. (intransitive) to check up, to check and revise something

Inflection

Conjugation of sjp (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: sjp

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sjpt, sjp	sjpw, sjp	sjpt	sjp	sjp

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sjp.n	sjpw, sjp	consecutive	sjp.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	sjpt
perfective3	sjp	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	sjp.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	sjp	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	sjpw, sjp, sjpy	sjpw, sjp, sjpy	potentialis1	sjp.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	sjp	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sjp.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	sjp	active + .tj1, .tw2	sjp	sjp, sjpw5, sjpy5
imperfective	sjp, sjpy, sjpw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	sjp, sjpj6, sjpy6	sjp, sjpw5
prospective	sjp, sjptj7	—	sjpwtj1 4, sjptj4, sjpt4
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 forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sjp  

sp	sjp	jsp
[Old Kingdom]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[Book of the Dead]

Noun

 m

1. inspection, check

Inflection

Declension of sjp (masculine)

singular	sjp
dual	sjpwj
plural	sjpw

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 35.2–36.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 212