mrj

See also: MRJ

Translingual

Symbol

mrj

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Western Mari terms

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈmiɾjit/ → /ˈmiʔjiʔ/ → /ˈmeʔja/ → /ˈmeʔjə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiɾjit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmiʔjiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmeʔja/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈmeʔjə/

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

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive, of family members, rulers and subjects, or people and gods) to love (someone), to have affection for, to be fond of
   • The Stela of Inhuretnakht, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities 1783:

     jrt.n n.f zꜣ.f smsw.f mr(j).f dbj

     What his eldest beloved son Debi made for him.

2. (transitive) to love (something abstract: truth, life, goodness, battle, etc.)
3. (transitive) to be fond of, to love (something one possesses)
4. (transitive) to want, to desire (something one does not possess)
5. (transitive) to desire to be in (a place)
6. (transitive, with infinitive) to want (to do something)
7. (transitive, with sḏm.f) to want, to wish (that something be done)

Usage notes

The imperfective and perfective nominal forms of this word can be used after m at the start of a sentence to introduce a conditional or comparative noun clause.

Inflection

Conjugation of mrj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: mr, geminated stem: mrr

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural mrt, mrj mrw, mr mrt, mrwt, mryt mr mr, mry ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 mr8, mrr8 ḥr mrt, ḥr mrj m mrt, m mrj r mrt, r mrj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect mr.n mrw, mr, mry consecutive mr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative mrt, mryt perfective3 mr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 mr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective mr, mry active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 mrw, mr, mry mrw, mr, mry potentialis1 mr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive mr, mry active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect mr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective mrw1, mry, mr active + .tj1, .tw2 mr mry, mr imperfective mrr, mrry, mrrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 mrr, mrrj6, mrry6 mrr, mrrw5 prospective mrw1, mry, mr, mrtj7 — mrwtj1 4, mrtj4, mrt4 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 .sn/.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 mrj  

mrj	mrj	mrj	mrj	mrj	mrj	mrj	mrj
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[since the Old Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Amarna Period]

Derived terms

• mr.n-rꜥ
• mr.s-ꜥnḫ
• mry
• mry-jmn
• mry-n-ptḥ
• mry-rꜥ
• mryt-jmn
• mryt-jt.s
• mryt-jtn
• mryt-ptḥ
• mryt-rꜥ
• mrt-nbtj
• tꜣ-mrj

Descendants

• Demotic: mr
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓⲉ (meie)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ (mei)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲙⲏⲓ (mēi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲙⲉ (me)
• →? Hebrew: מרים (miryám)

References

• “mri̯ (lemma ID 72470)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 98.12–101.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 111
• James P[eter] Allen (2010), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 374.