jbj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbit/ → /ˈjiːbiʔ/ → /ˈʔiːβə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbiʔ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔiːβə/

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) thirsty, to thirst

Inflection

Conjugation of jbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: jb, geminated stem: jbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jbt, jbj	jbw, jb	jbt, jbwt, jbyt	jb	jb, jby

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
jb8, jbb8	ḥr jbt, ḥr jbj	m jbt, m jbj	r jbt, r jbj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	jb.n	consecutive	jb.jn
terminative	jbt, jbyt
perfective3	jb	obligative1	jb.ḫr
imperfective	jb, jby
prospective3	jbw, jb, jby	potentialis1	jb.kꜣ
subjunctive	jb, jby

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	jb.n	—	—
perfective	jbw1, jby, jb	jb	jby, jb
imperfective	jbb, jbby, jbbw5	jbb, jbbj6, jbby6	jbb, jbbw5
prospective	jbw1, jby, jb, jbtj7	jbwtj1 4, jbtj4, jbt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbj  

jbj

Derived terms

• jb
• jbt

Descendants

• Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲃⲉ (eibe)

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 219, 456.