mtr

See also: MTR and mtr'

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to witness

Inflection

Conjugation of mtr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: mtr, geminated stem: mtrr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
mtr	mtrw, mtr	mtrt	mtr	mtr

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	mtr.n	mtrw, mtr	consecutive	mtr.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	mtrt
perfective3	mtr	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	mtr.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	mtr	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	mtr	mtrr	potentialis1	mtr.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	mtr	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	mtr.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	mtr	active + .tj1, .tw2	mtr	mtr, mtrw5, mtry5
imperfective	mtr, mtry, mtrw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	mtr, mtrj6, mtry6	mtr, mtrw5
prospective	mtr, mtrtj7	—	mtrtj4, mtrt4
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

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 36.