jj

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 anom.

1. (intransitive) to arrive, to come to a certain place (+ r or n: to (a place, person, thing, etc.); + ḫr: to (someone of higher status); + m: from (a place), into (something), by means of (a vehicle), as (a role); + ḥr: to, upon (something), from, for the sake of; + m-dj: from (someone))
2. (intransitive) to come here, to move from further to nearby
3. (intransitive) to return, to come back
4. (intransitive, of future events, time, old age, etc.) to come to pass or come to be, to come, to arrive
5. (intransitive, with r and following infinitive) to come (to do something)

Usage notes

By Middle Egyptian, this verb and its synonym jwj were apparently conflated into one, with some inflections of the verb using one stem and some using the other.

Inflection

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Demotic: jj, jw
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲉⲓ (ei)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓ (i)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓ (i), ⲉⲓ (ei)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓ (ei)

References

• “jy (lemma ID 21300)” and “jy (lemma ID 851687)”, 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 37.1–37.36
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 10
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 159, 455.

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͜ʃʼ/

Letter

jj (upper case Jj)

1. A letter of the practical Hadza alphabet.

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (to one person) /ˈjɛk ˈjɔːd͡ʒ.bɔk/, (to many) /ˈjɛk jɔˈd͡ʒɔp.kɔm/
• IPA^(key): (to one person) /ˈjɛk ˈjɔˤːd͡ʒ.bɔk/, (to many) /ˈjɛk jɔˤːˈd͡ʒɔp.kɔm/ (archaic)

Interjection

jj

1. Abbreviation of jekk jogħġbok.
2. Abbreviation of jekk jogħġobkom.

Tarifit

Alternative forms

• ejj, ǧ

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Verb

jj (Tifinagh spelling ⵊⵊ)

1. (transitive) to let, to leave
2. (transitive) to abandon
3. (transitive) to save, to keep (something for someone)
4. (transitive) to bequeath
5. (transitive) to create, to birth, to beget
6. (transitive) to allow, to tolerate

Conjugation

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Derived terms

• Verbal noun: timejja (“action of being left alone”)
• Passive: twajj (“to be left alone”)
• mejj (“to have been left”)