skj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛki/
  • Conventional anglicization: seki

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to perish, to expire
2. (transitive) to wipe out, to eliminate

Inflection

Conjugation of skj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: sk, geminated stem: skk

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural skt, skj skw, sk skt, skwt, skyt sk sk, sky ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sk8, skk8 ḥr skt, ḥr skj m skt, m skj r skt, r skj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sk.n skw, sk, sky consecutive sk.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative skt, skyt perfective3 sk active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sk.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sk, sky active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 skw, sk, sky skw, sk, sky potentialis1 sk.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sk, sky active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sk.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective skw1, sky, sk active + .tj1, .tw2 sk sky, sk imperfective skk, skky, skkw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 skk, skkj6, skky6 skk, skkw5 prospective skw1, sky, sk, sktj7 — skwtj1 4, sktj4, skt4 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. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Derived terms

• j.ḫm-sk

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 173, 250.