sr
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Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of steradian
Abinomn
Egyptian
Verb
2-lit.
- (transitive) to predict, to foretell
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 30–32:
- sr.sn ḏꜥ nj jjt nšnj nj ḫprt.f
- They could predict a stormwind before it came or a thunderstorm before it happened.
Inflection
Conjugation of sr (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: sr, geminated stem: srr
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
sr |
srw, sr |
srt |
sr, j.sr |
sr, j.sr |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
sr |
ḥr sr |
m sr |
r sr |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | sr.n |
srw, sr |
consecutive | sr.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | srt | ||||
perfective3 | sr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative | sr.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | sr, j.sr1 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | sr |
srr |
potentialis | sr.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | sr, j.sr1 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | sr.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
perfective | sr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
sr |
srr, srrj6, sr2, srw2 5, sry2 5 |
imperfective | j.sr1, sr, sry, srw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
j.sr1, j.srw1 5, sr, srj6, sry6 |
sr, srw5 |
prospective | sr, srtj7 |
— | srtj4, srt4 | |
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sr
sr | sr |
Presumably based on the descendants, Allen reads this word with an unwritten j as srj.
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 180.
- Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168
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