zpj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to remain, to survive
2. (intransitive) to happen

Inflection

Conjugation of zpj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: zp, geminated stem: zpp

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
zpt, zpj	zpw, zp	zpt, zpwt, zpyt	zp	zp, zpy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
zp8, zpp8	ḥr zpt, ḥr zpj	m zpt, m zpj	r zpt, r zpj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	zp.n	consecutive	zp.jn
terminative	zpt, zpyt
perfective3	zp	obligative1	zp.ḫr
imperfective	zp, zpy
prospective3	zpw, zp, zpy	potentialis1	zp.kꜣ
subjunctive	zp, zpy

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	zp.n	—	—
perfective	zpw1, zpy, zp	zp	zpy, zp
imperfective	zpp, zppy, zppw5	zpp, zppj6, zppy6	zpp, zppw5
prospective	zpw1, zpy, zp, zptj7	zpwtj1 4, zptj4, zpt4
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.

Derived terms

• nj zp
• nn zp

Related terms

• zp

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 260, 270, 385.