ꜣbj

Egyptian

Borrowed from Proto-Semitic *ʔabay-. Compare Hebrew אבה (ʾāḇā, “to be willing”).

3ae inf.

(transitive) to desire, to want, to long for (a thing, a person, or a place) [since the Middle Kingdom]
(transitive or rarely intransitive with n or r, with following infinitive) to want to do [since the Middle Kingdom]
(intransitive, with m, Late Egyptian) to take pleasure at, to be happy about [Greco-Roman Period]

Conjugation of ꜣbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜣb, geminated stem: ꜣbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ꜣbt, ꜣbj	ꜣbw, ꜣb	ꜣbt, ꜣbwt, ꜣbyt	ꜣb	ꜣb, ꜣby

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ꜣb⁸, ꜣbb⁸	ḥr ꜣbt, ḥr ꜣbj	m ꜣbt, m ꜣbj	r ꜣbt, r ꜣbj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜣb.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ꜣbw¹, ꜣby, ꜣb	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ꜣb	ꜣby, ꜣb
imperfective	ꜣbb, ꜣbby, ꜣbbw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ꜣbb, ꜣbbj⁶, ꜣbby⁶	ꜣbb, ꜣbbw⁵
prospective	ꜣbw¹, ꜣby, ꜣb, ꜣbtj⁷	—	ꜣbwtj^{1 4}, ꜣbtj⁴, ꜣbt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbj

ꜣbj

ꜣbw

ꜣbj

jbj

jꜣbj

ꜣbj

[New Kingdom,
Greco-Roman Period]

[New Kingdom]

[Greco-Roman Period]

in hieratic

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 171.
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 6.24–7.7
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2
Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pages 7–8

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