mhj

See also: mḥj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive, of the heart/mind) to be(come) forgetful [Middle Kingdom to Late Period]
2. (intransitive, with ḥr) to forget, to no longer know (something)
3. (intransitive, with ḥr) to forget, to no longer recognize (someone)

Usage notes

This verb is almost always found negated.

Inflection

Conjugation of mhj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: mh, geminated stem: mhh

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
mht, mhj	mhw, mh	mht, mhwt, mhyt	mh	mh, mhy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
mh8, mhh8	ḥr mht, ḥr mhj	m mht, m mhj	r mht, r mhj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	mh.n	consecutive	mh.jn
terminative	mht, mhyt
perfective3	mh	obligative1	mh.ḫr
imperfective	mh, mhy
prospective3	mhw, mh, mhy	potentialis1	mh.kꜣ
subjunctive	mh, mhy

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	mh.n	—	—
perfective	mhw1, mhy, mh	mh	mhy, mh
imperfective	mhh, mhhy, mhhw5	mhh, mhhj6, mhhy6	mhh, mhhw5
prospective	mhw1, mhy, mh, mhtj7	mhwtj1 4, mhtj4, mht4
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 mhj  

mhj	mhj	mhj	mhj	mhj	mhꜣj
[Middle Kingdom]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[19th/20th Dynasty]
					in hieratic

Synonyms

• smḫ

Derived terms

• mht

References

• “mhi̯ (lemma ID 73070)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 113.7–113.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 112
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 376.