mj

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

Compare with Hebrew מי‎ (mí).

 interrogative enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun

1. who?, what?; a general interrogative pronoun for people and things

This form of pronoun is an enclitic that must directly follow the word it modifies. Its meaning depends on its context:

• When it follows a verb, it indicates the object of the verb.
• In the second and third person when it follows an adjective, it forms the subject of an adjectival sentence.
• When it follows a relative adjective, such as ntj, ntt, or jsṯ, it indicates the subject of the relative clause (usually only in the first person singular and third person common).
• When it follows an imperative, it indicates the object of the verb.
• When it follows a particle like m.k, it indicates the subject of the clause.
• When attached to a preposition, it indicates the object of the preposition.

• mj mj
• r mj
• ḥr mj

Possibly to be identified with the proclitic particle m (“see, behold”).

 enclitic

1. (following a verb in the imperative) strengthens an imperative; please, now

1. like, just as
   • c. 1859 BCE – 1840 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B1 (pAmherst 1 and pBerlin 3023) lines 221–222:[1]

     […] mj dpt nn sḫry jm.s […]

     […] like a ship without a captain […]

2. in accordance with
3. as well as

When the object is a personal pronoun, mj is not used; instead, one of its derivatives mjtj and mjtw is used with a suffix pronoun.

1. imperative of jj (“to come”)

• Coptic: ⲁⲙⲟⲩ (amou) (masculine singular), ⲁⲙⲏ (amē) (feminine singular), ⲁⲙⲱⲓ (amōi) (masculine plural), ⲁⲙⲏⲓ (amēi) (feminine plural)

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 78, 86, 90, 189–190, 198 page 56, 78, 86, 90, 189–190, 198.
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• Junge, Friedrich (2005) Late Egyptian Grammar: An Introduction, second English edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, page 78–79