ꜣbꜣb

Egyptian

Etymology

Probably a reduplication of ꜣbj (“to desire, to want, to be happy”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑbɑb/
  • Conventional anglicization: abab

Verb

 4-lit.

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Middle Kingdom]
   1. (intransitive) to be(come) delighted

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣbꜣb (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ꜣbꜣb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣbꜣb	ꜣbꜣbw, ꜣbꜣb	ꜣbꜣbt	ꜣbꜣb	ꜣbꜣb

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜣbꜣb	ḥr ꜣbꜣb	m ꜣbꜣb	r ꜣbꜣb

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜣbꜣb.n	consecutive	ꜣbꜣb.jn
terminative	ꜣbꜣbt
perfective3	ꜣbꜣb	obligative1	ꜣbꜣb.ḫr
imperfective	ꜣbꜣb
prospective3	ꜣbꜣbw, ꜣbꜣb	potentialis1	ꜣbꜣb.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜣbꜣb

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣbꜣb.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣbꜣb	ꜣbꜣb	ꜣbꜣb, ꜣbꜣbw5, ꜣbꜣby5
imperfective	ꜣbꜣb, ꜣbꜣby, ꜣbꜣbw5	ꜣbꜣb, ꜣbꜣbj6, ꜣbꜣby6	ꜣbꜣb, ꜣbꜣbw5
prospective	ꜣbꜣb, ꜣbꜣbtj7	ꜣbꜣbwtj1 4, ꜣbꜣbtj4, ꜣbꜣbt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 8.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2