FromProto-Afroasiatic*yi(“me”). Compare withArabicـيَ(-ya) andBlinyə.

• (modern Egyptological)IPA^(key): /ʔi/
  • Conventional anglicization:.i

 sg1. suffix pronoun

1. I,me,my (see usage notes)
   • c. 2000BCE – 1900BCE,Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 41–45:

     jr.n.j ḫmtw hrw wꜥ.kw jb.j m snnw.j sḏr.kw m ẖnw n(j) kꜣp n(j) ḫt qnj.n.j šwyt

     I spent three days alone,my heartmy only companion(literally,“my second”), lying inside a shelter of wood,I having embraced the shadows.

This form of pronoun attaches directly to the preceding word, and means different things depending on what it is attached to.

• When attached to a noun, it indicates thepossessor of the noun.
• When attached to a verb of the suffix conjugation, it indicates thesubject of the verb.
• When attached to an infinitive verb (especially of an intransitive verb) whose subject is not otherwise expressed, it indicates thesubject of the verb.
• When attached to a transitive infinitive verb whose subject is otherwise expressed or omitted, it indicates theobject of the verb.
• In the third person, when attached to a prospective participle, it indicates gender and number agreement.
• When attached to a particle likejw or a parenthetic likeḫr, it indicates thesubject of the clause.
• When attached to a preposition, it indicates theobject of the preposition.
• When it follows a relative adjective such asntj orntt, it indicates thesubject of the relative clause (except in the first person singular and third person common).

The first person singular suffix pronoun is often not written; particularly, it is regularly omitted in Old Egyptian. When it is written, it has a number of variants:

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of.j  

.j	.j	.j	.j	.j
[Old Kingdom]		[Middle Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[Late Period]
			sportive writing, from j(“reed panicle”)

Further, it can optionally be varied to indicate the identity of the antecedent — a distinction which would not have been indicated in speech, e.g.:

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of.j  

							[Late Egyptian]
male human	female human	god	god or king	king	king	dead human	female human

In Late Egyptian, the presence of this pronoun results in the retention of final-t when the word it is attached to ends in this consonant; this is sometimes expressed by leaving the pronoun unwritten but adding to indicate the retained-t.

• (modern Egyptological)IPA^(key): /ʔi/
  • Conventional anglicization:.i

 m sg 3. stative ending

1. (Old Egyptian, attached to a stative verb form)he,him

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of.j  

∅	.w
most commonly, this morpheme is left unwritten

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• Junge, Friedrich (2005),Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page52
• Hoch, James (1997),Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications,→ISBN,pages32–33
• Erman, Adolf;Grapow, Hermann (1926),Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag,→ISBN,page25
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962),A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute,→ISBN,page 7

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