Middle (or Classical) Egyptian  is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It is attested between 2100-1600 BC on papyri (biographical, economical, religious texts, tales), stelae (private, kings’, religious) and in grammars of Middle Egyptian.

Adjectives in Middle Egyptian are divided into 3 groups:

1. primary (nb – “all, every”) – not derived, only one adjective of this type
2. secondary (nfr – “beautiful”), derived from verbal forms (participles)
3. derived\nisbe, derived with the help of suffix -j only from a noun (njwtj – “local, of the town” from njwt – “town”) or preposition (n(j)\nw\nt – “genitival adjective”, expresses possession – “of, belonging to”).

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