wpj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛpi/
  • Conventional anglicization: wepi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to split, to open
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 81–82:

     jw wp.n.f r(ꜣ).f r.j jw.j ḥr ẖt.j m bꜣḥ.f

     He opened his mouth at me while I was on my belly before him.

Inflection

Conjugation of wpj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: wp, geminated stem: wpp

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wpt, wpj wpw, wp wpt, wpwt, wpyt wp wp, wpy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wp8, wpp8 ḥr wpt, ḥr wpj m wpt, m wpj r wpt, r wpj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect wp.n wpw, wp, wpy consecutive wp.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative wpt, wpyt perfective3 wp active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 wp.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective wp, wpy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 wpw, wp, wpy wpw, wp, wpy potentialis1 wp.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive wp, wpy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect wp.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective wpw1, wpy, wp active + .tj1, .tw2 wp wpy, wp imperfective wpp, wppy, wppw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 wpp, wppj6, wppy6 wpp, wppw5 prospective wpw1, wpy, wp, wptj7 — wpwtj1 4, wptj4, wpt4 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.

Synonyms

• wbꜣ
• wn
• swn
• zn
• kfꜣ

Derived terms

• wpw
• wpt-r
• wp-wꜣwt

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 235.