mrj

Pronunciation

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

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

Verb

3ae inf.

(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.
(transitive) to love (something abstract: truth, life, goodness, battle, etc.)
(transitive) to be fond of, to love (something one possesses)
(transitive) to want, to desire (something one does not possess)
(transitive) to desire to be in (a place)
(transitive, with infinitive) to want (to do something)
(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

More information infinitival forms, imperative ...

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	aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	mr.n	mrw, mr, mry	consecutive	mr.jn	active + .tj¹, .tw²
perfect	mr.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²
terminative	mrt, mryt
perfective³	mr	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	mr.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
imperfective	mr, mry	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	mr.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	mrw, mr, mry	mrw, mr, mry	potentialis¹	mr.kꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	mrw, mr, mry	active + .tj¹, .tw²
subjunctive	mr, mry	active + .tj¹, .tw²

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	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	—	mrwtj^{1 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

[Old Kingdom]

[since the Old Kingdom]

[since the Middle Kingdom]

[Amarna Period]

Derived terms

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.

Translingual

Symbol

See also

Egyptian