gr

See also: GR, Gr, .gr, gr., and Gr.

English

gr

Abbreviation of grain, a unit of mass.
(rare) Abbreviation of gram; the standard symbol for gram since the International System of Units was introduced in 1960 is g.

2-lit.

(intransitive) to be(come) still
(intransitive) to be(come) silent
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.12–2.1:
  
  jmj pr rn.k jw gr.k m r(ꜣ).k njs.t(w).k
  Let your reputation emerge, even as you stay quiet with your mouth when you are summoned.

Conjugation of gr (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: gr, geminated stem: grr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
gr	grw, gr	grt	gr, j.gr	gr, j.gr

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	gr.n	—	—
perfective	gr	gr	grr, grrj⁶, gr², grw^{2 5}, gry^{2 5}
imperfective	j.gr¹, gr, gry, grw⁵	j.gr¹, j.grw^{1 5}, gr, grj⁶, gry⁶	gr, grw⁵
prospective	gr, grtj⁷	grtj⁴, grt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 241.

IPA^(key): (singular) /ɡrɔʂ/, (plural nominative) /ˈɡrɔ.ʂɛ/, (plural genitive) /ˈɡrɔ.ʂɨ/
Rhymes: -ɔʂ

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