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 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.

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