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j Appendix:Variations of "j"
Egyptian
Etymology 1
From egy afa-pro *yi me. Compare with ar ـيَ and byn yə.
Pronunciation
aj<ref:56, 63> aj (aʔ)<note:; usually silent, but preserves root-final egy /t/ or egy /ɾ/ that would otherwise be lost> (aʔ)<note:in certain phonetic environments egy /aʔ/; usually silent, but preserves root-final egy /t/ or egy /ɾ/ that would otherwise be lost>
Pronoun
suffix s 1p A1
I, me, my (see usage notes)
egy ShS. lines 41–45 ir:n-A1-h:r-w-hrw-Z1-Z1-Z1-wa:a-Z1*nDs:k\-W-A1-ib-Z1-A1-m-sn-n:nw-w-A1-Z1-Z1-A1-!-z-Dr:r-A55:k\-w-A1-m-Xn:n-nw*W:pr-n:k\-A-p:V19-pr:n-xt:t*Z1-q:n-i-D32-a:n-A1-H6A-W-i-i-t-ra jr.n.j ḫmtw hrw wꜥ.kw jb.j m snnw.j sḏr.kw m ẖnw n(j) kꜣp n(j) ḫt qnj.n.j šwyt I spent three days alone, my heart my only companion my second, lying inside a shelter of wood, I having embraced the shadows.
Usage notes
Inflection
Alternative forms
The first person singular suffix pronoun is often not written; particularly, it is regularly omitted in Old Egyptian. When it is written, it has a number of variants:
i .j Old Kingdom i-A1 .j i-Z1 .j Middle Kingdom Hn .j 18th Dynasty sportive writing, fromegy j reed panicle Z1 .j Late Period
Further, it can optionally be varied to indicate the identity of the antecedent — a distinction which would not have been indicated in speech, e.g.:
A1 male human B1 female human A40 god G7 god or king A41 king A42 king A50 dead human t Late Egyptian female human
In Late Egyptian, the presence of this pronoun results in the retention of final egy -t when the word it is attached to ends in this consonant; this is sometimes expressed by leaving the pronoun unwritten but adding t-W to indicate the retained egy -t.
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Pronoun
stative m-s 3p i
egy Old Egyptian attached to a stative verb form he, him
Inflection
Alternative forms
∅ most commonly, thismorpheme is left unwritten w .w
References
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