sgr

See also: Sgr and SGR

Egyptian[edit]

s- (causative prefix) +‎ gr (“to be silent”).

caus. 2-lit.

Conjugation of sgr (causative biliteral / caus. 2-lit. / caus. 2rad.) — base stem: sgr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sgrt, sgr	sgrw, sgr	sgrt	sgr	sgr

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
sgr	ḥr sgr	m sgr	r sgr

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sgr.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sgr	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sgr	sgr, sgrw⁵, sgry⁵
imperfective	sgr, sgry, sgrw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sgr, sgrj⁶, sgry⁶	sgr, sgrw⁵
prospective	sgr, sgrtj⁷	—	sgrwtj^{1 4}, sgrtj⁴, sgrt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

m

Declension of sgr (masculine)

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 378.