SubForm: verb subform
| Values: | AbstRel | Pred | RelForm |
Earlier Egyptian has two verb conjugations: the suffix pronoun conjugation and the Old Semitic suffix conjugation (commonly known as the pseudoparticiple). According to Polotsky (1944: 93) and Schenkel (2012: 191), the suffix pronoun conjugation consists of three finite verb forms: predicative verb forms (SubForm=Pred), abstract relative verb forms (SubForm=AbstRel) and concrete relative verb forms (SubForm=RelForm). Predicative verb forms are not characterised by adjective or nominal features, for example: PT 123a (= EUJA-393) i҆w nk.n Wni҆ś Mw.t Particle copulate:pred.past Unas-KN Muwet:GN i҆w nk.n Wni҆ś Mw.t Unas has copulated with Mowet.
Abstract relative verb forms are finite verb forms used syntactically as nouns, for example the abstract relative verb form prr “go out, ascend” is used syntactically as a noun in a subject clause focusing the adverbial phrase in the following example: PT 365b (= EUJA-1150) prr ⸗f ḥr ḥti҆ ascend:abstrel.pres =3sgm on:prep smoke-sg.m
prr ⸗f ḥr ḥti҆ Lit.: (The fact) that he ascends, is on the smoke. Translation: It is on the smoke that he ascends.
Concrete relative verb forms (also called relative verb forms) are finite verb forms used syntactically as adjectives, for example the relative form mrr.w ⸗k is used as an adjective in attributive function in the following example: PT 607d T (= EUJA-1771):
Wng mrr.w ⸗k Weneg-gn love:pres.rel-m.sg =2sg.m
(…) Weneg whom you love.
Verbs conjugated in the Old Semitic suffix conjugation (OSSC) are finite verb forms (VerbForm=Fin), for example:
PT 21a (= EUJA-113)
i҆r.t Ḥr.w wč̣ꜣ.t(i҆) eye-sg.f Horus-gn be intact:ossc-3sg.f
The Eye of Horus is intact
Bibliography on the verb forms of the suffix pronoun conjugation: Hans Jakob Polotsky, 1944. Études de Syntaxe Copte. Cairo. Wolfgang Schenkel, 2012. Tübinger Einführung in die klassisch-ägyptische Sprache und Schrift, Pagina, Tübingen.
AbstRel: abstract relative verb form
Example
- TBA
RelForm: concrete relative verb form
Example
- TBA
Pred: predicative verb form
Example
- TBA
- ꞽwi̯ “come, return”
SubForm in other languages: [egy]