bꜣj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɑi/
  • Conventional anglicization: bai

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be damp [Medical Papyri]

Inflection

Conjugation of bꜣj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: bꜣ, geminated stem: bꜣꜣ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
bꜣt, bꜣj	bꜣw, bꜣ	bꜣt, bꜣwt, bꜣyt	bꜣ	bꜣ, bꜣy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
bꜣ8, bꜣꜣ8	ḥr bꜣt, ḥr bꜣj	m bꜣt, m bꜣj	r bꜣt, r bꜣj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	bꜣ.n	consecutive	bꜣ.jn
terminative	bꜣt, bꜣyt
perfective3	bꜣ	obligative1	bꜣ.ḫr
imperfective	bꜣ, bꜣy
prospective3	bꜣw, bꜣ, bꜣy	potentialis1	bꜣ.kꜣ
subjunctive	bꜣ, bꜣy

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	bꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	bꜣw1, bꜣy, bꜣ	bꜣ	bꜣy, bꜣ
imperfective	bꜣꜣ, bꜣꜣy, bꜣꜣw5	bꜣꜣ, bꜣꜣj6, bꜣꜣy6	bꜣꜣ, bꜣꜣw5
prospective	bꜣw1, bꜣy, bꜣ, bꜣtj7	bꜣwtj1 4, bꜣtj4, bꜣt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 417.11–417.12
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 77