sꜣꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 2ae gem.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) wise

Inflection

Conjugation of sꜣꜣ (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: sꜣ, geminated stem: sꜣꜣ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sꜣꜣ8	sꜣꜣ	sꜣꜣt	sꜣꜣ, sꜣ	sꜣꜣ, sꜣ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
sꜣꜣ, sꜣ	ḥr sꜣꜣ	m sꜣꜣ	r sꜣꜣ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	sꜣꜣ.n, sꜣ.n	consecutive	sꜣ.jn
terminative	sꜣꜣt
perfective3	sꜣ	obligative1	sꜣꜣ.ḫr
imperfective	sꜣꜣ
prospective3	sꜣꜣ	potentialis1	sꜣ.kꜣ
subjunctive	sꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	sꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	sꜣ	sꜣ	sꜣ, sꜣw5, sꜣy5
imperfective	sꜣꜣ, sꜣꜣy, sꜣꜣw5	sꜣꜣ, sꜣꜣj6, sꜣꜣy6	sꜣꜣ, sꜣꜣw5
prospective	sꜣ, sꜣtj7	sꜣꜣtj4, sꜣꜣt4
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. sꜣ before suffix pronouns.

Noun

 m

1. wise man

Inflection

Declension of sꜣꜣ (masculine)

singular	sꜣꜣ
dual	sꜣꜣwj
plural	sꜣꜣw

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 393.