ꜣfj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3ae inf.

  1. (intransitive) to gorge oneself, to be greedy [Coffin Texts to Late Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣfj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜣf, geminated stem: ꜣff
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜣft, ꜣfj
ꜣfw, ꜣf
ꜣft, ꜣfwt, ꜣfyt
ꜣf
ꜣf, ꜣfy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜣf8, ꜣff8
ḥr ꜣft, ḥr ꜣfj
m ꜣft, m ꜣfj
r ꜣft, r ꜣfj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ꜣf.n
consecutive ꜣf.jn
terminative ꜣft, ꜣfyt
perfective3 ꜣf
obligative1 ꜣf.ḫr
imperfective ꜣf, ꜣfy
prospective3 ꜣfw, ꜣf, ꜣfy
potentialis1 ꜣf.kꜣ
subjunctive ꜣf, ꜣfy
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ꜣf.n
perfective ꜣfw1, ꜣfy, ꜣf
ꜣf
ꜣfy, ꜣf
imperfective ꜣff, ꜣffy, ꜣffw5
ꜣff, ꜣffj6, ꜣffy6
ꜣff, ꜣffw5
prospective ꜣfw1, ꜣfy, ꜣf, ꜣftj7
ꜣfwtj1 4, ꜣftj4, ꜣft4

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.

Alternative forms

Descendants

  • Demotic: ꜥfꜥ
    • Coptic: ⲁϥ (af) in ⲁϥ-ϫⲓⲣ (af-čir)

References

  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 3, 182.12
  • Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 65
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 17
  • Borghouts, J. F. and van der Plas, Dirk (1998) Coffin Texts Word Index, Utrecht and Paris, p. 2