wpj

Egyptian[edit]

3ae inf.

(transitive) to split, to open
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 81–82:
  
  jw wp.n.f r(ꜣ).f r.j jw.j ḥr ẖt.j m bꜣḥ.f
  He opened his mouth at me while I was on my belly before him.

Conjugation of wpj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: wp, geminated stem: wpp

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
wpt, wpj	wpw, wp	wpt, wpwt, wpyt	wp	wp, wpy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
wp⁸, wpp⁸	ḥr wpt, ḥr wpj	m wpt, m wpj	r wpt, r wpj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wp.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	wpw¹, wpy, wp	active + .tj¹, .tw²	wp	wpy, wp
imperfective	wpp, wppy, wppw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	wpp, wppj⁶, wppy⁶	wpp, wppw⁵
prospective	wpw¹, wpy, wp, wptj⁷	—	wpwtj^{1 4}, wptj⁴, wpt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 235.