jj

jj

1. (text messaging, Internet slang) abbreviation of jo jo

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iʔi/
  • Conventional anglicization: ii

 anom.

1. (intransitive) to arrive, to come to a certain place (+ r or n: to (a place, person, thing, etc.); + ḫr: to (someone of higher status); + m: from (a place), into (something), by means of (a vehicle), as (a role); + ḥr: to, upon (something), from, for the sake of; + m-dj: from (someone))
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 119–121:

     jw dpt r jjt m ẖnw sqdw jm.s rḫ.n.k

     A boat is to come from home with sailors in it whom you know.

2. (intransitive) to come here, to move from further to nearby
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 60–62:

     kf.n.j ḥr.j gm.n.j ḥfꜣw pw jw.f m jjt

     When I uncovered my face, I found it was a snake. He was coming!

3. (intransitive) to return, to come back

   jj m ḥtp

   to return safely or fortunately, to come (back) in peace

   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 7–8:

     jzwt.n jj.t(j) ꜥd.t(j) nn nhw n mšꜥ.n

     Our crew has returned intact, without loss to our expedition.

4. (intransitive, of future events, time, old age, etc.) to come to pass or come to be, to come, to arrive
5. (intransitive, with r and following infinitive) to come (to do something)

By Middle Egyptian, this verb and its synonym jwj were apparently conflated into one, with some inflections of the verb using one stem and some using the other.

• Demotic: jj, jw
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲉⲓ (ei)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓ (i)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓ (i), ⲉⲓ (ei)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓ (ei)

• “jy (lemma ID 21300)” and “jy (lemma ID 851687)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 37.1–37.36
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 159, 455.

• IPA^(key): /t͜ʃʼ/

jj (upper case Jj)

1. A letter of the practical Hadza alphabet.

• IPA^(key): (to one person) /ˈjɛk ˈjɔːd͡ʒ.bɔk/, (to many) /ˈjɛk jɔˈd͡ʒɔp.kɔm/
• IPA^(key): (to one person) /ˈjɛk ˈjɔˤːd͡ʒ.bɔk/, (to many) /ˈjɛk jɔˤːˈd͡ʒɔp.kɔm/ (archaic)

jj

1. abbreviation of jekk jogħġbok
2. abbreviation of jekk jogħġobkom

• ejj, ǧ

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

jj (Tifinagh spelling ⵊⵊ)

1. (transitive) to let, to leave
2. (transitive) to abandon
3. (transitive) to save, to keep (something for someone)
4. (transitive) to bequeath
5. (transitive) to create, to birth, to beget
6. (transitive) to allow, to tolerate

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Verbal noun: timejja (“action of being left alone”)
• Passive: twajj (“to be left alone”)
• mejj (“to have been left”)