ksj

Translingual

Symbol

ksj

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Uare.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Uare terms

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to bow down (+ n or ḥr: before (someone))
2. (intransitive) to bend down (in order to pick something up)
3. (transitive) to bend (something)

Inflection

Conjugation of ksj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ks, geminated stem: kss

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural kst, ksj ksw, ks kst, kswt, ksyt ks ks, ksy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ks8, kss8 ḥr kst, ḥr ksj m kst, m ksj r kst, r ksj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ks.n ksw, ks, ksy consecutive ks.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative kst, ksyt perfective3 ks active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ks.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ks, ksy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ksw, ks, ksy ksw, ks, ksy potentialis1 ks.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ks, ksy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ks.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ksw1, ksy, ks active + .tj1, .tw2 ks ksy, ks imperfective kss, kssy, kssw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 kss, kssj6, kssy6 kss, kssw5 prospective ksw1, ksy, ks, kstj7 — kswtj1 4, kstj4, kst4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 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. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ksj  

ksj

[since the Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms

• sksj
• ksw

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1931), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 139.7–139.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 287