Stionu Verbs

STIONU VERBS. Biliteral . . Of ten showing traces of an ongmal in. inf.; m early times very rare. Trilateral . . Very numerous. (Generally formed by reduplication. In Late Egyptian they were no longer inflected, and were conjugated with the help of irv, WlAK VERBS, ll. gcminatae ill. gem. ill. inf. IV. inf. . Properly triliterals, but , with the 2nd or 3rd radical alike, these coalesced in many forms where no vowel intervened, and gave the word the appearance of a biliteral. . Rare. . Numerous, m. u>, and HI. ( were unified early. Some very common verbs, " do," " give, ' " come," " bring " are irregular. . Partly derived from adjectival formations in y, from nouns and infinitives: — e.g. S-16, inf. slpt; adj. ilpty; verb (4 lit.), slpty. Many verbs with weak consonants — ly, iv, 1 1. inf. (m[w]t), and those with • — are particularly difficult to trace accurately, owing to defective writing. It seems that all the above classes may be divided into two main group*, according to the form of the infinitive: — with masculine infinitive the strong triliteral type, and with feminine infinitive the type of the ill. inf.

The former group includes all except in. inf., IY. inf., and 'the causative of the biliterals, which belong to the second group. It is probable that the verb had a special form denoting condition, as in Arabic. There was a causative form prefixing s, and traces of forms resembling Pitl and Niphal are observed. Some roots are reduplicated wholly or in part with a frequentative meaning, and there are traces of gemination of radicals. Pseudo-Participle. — In very early texts this is the past indicative, but more commonly it is used in sentences such as, gm-n-f wl 'k'-kwl, " he found me I stood," i.e. " he found me standing." The indicative use was soon given up and the pseudo-participle was employed only as predicate, especially indicating a state; e.g. ntr-t irn-0, " the goddess goes " ; Ito-i md-tl, " thou art prosperous." The endings were almost entirely lost in New Egyptian. For early times they stand thus: — Sing. 3. masc. fern. 2. masc. feci. I. c. Dual wli. ttlw