jbj

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Perhaps compare Arabic لَابَ (lāba).

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbit/ → /ˈjiːbiʔ/ → /ˈʔiːba/ → /ˈʔiːβə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈjiːbiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔiːba/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈʔiːβə/

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) thirsty, to thirst
2. (transitive) to thirst for, to thirst after
3. (intransitive, figuratively, of land) to be(come) barren, dry, parched

Inflection

Conjugation of jbj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: jb, geminated stem: jbb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jbt, jbj	jbw, jb	jbt, jbwt, jbyt	jb	jb, jby

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
jb8, jbb8	ḥr jbt, ḥr jbj	m jbt, m jbj	r jbt, r jbj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	jb.n	jbw, jb, jby	consecutive	jb.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	jbt, jbyt
perfective3	jb	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	jb.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	jb, jby	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	jbw, jb, jby	jbw, jb, jby	potentialis1	jb.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	jb, jby	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jb.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	jbw1, jby, jb	active + .tj1, .tw2	jb	jby, jb
imperfective	jbb, jbby, jbbw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	jbb, jbbj6, jbby6	jbb, jbbw5
prospective	jbw1, jby, jb, jbtj7	—	jbwtj1 4, jbtj4, jbt4
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 forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbj  

jbj	jbj	jbj	jbj	jbj	jbj	jbj
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms

• jb (“thirsty man”)
• jbt

 

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜣby, jby
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲃⲉ (eibe), (stative) ⲁⲃⲉ (abe )
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲃⲓ (ibi), (stative) ⲟⲃⲓ (obi )
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓⲃⲓ (ibi), (stative) ⲁⲃⲓ (abi )
  • Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲉⲓⲃⲉ (eibe), (stative) ⲁⲃⲉ (abe )
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲃⲉ (eibe), (stative) ⲟⲃⲉ (obe )

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

 m

1. Alternative form of jbr (“labdanum^?”)

References

• “jbi̯ (lemma ID 23640)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 61.8–61.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 15
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 219, 456.