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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) cold or freezing
Inflection
Conjugation of ḥs (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ḥs, geminated stem: ḥss
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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ḥs
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ḥsw, ḥs
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ḥst
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ḥs, j.ḥs
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ḥs, j.ḥs
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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ḥs
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ḥr ḥs
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m ḥs
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r ḥs
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| suffix conjugation
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active
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contingent
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active
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| perfect
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ḥs.n
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consecutive
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ḥs.jn
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| terminative
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ḥst
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| perfective3
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ḥs
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obligative1
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ḥs.ḫr
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| imperfective
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ḥs, j.ḥs1
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| prospective3
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ḥs
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potentialis1
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ḥs.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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ḥs, j.ḥs1
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| verbal adjectives
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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ḥs.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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ḥs
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ḥs
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ḥss, ḥssj6, ḥs2, ḥsw2 5, ḥsy2 5
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| imperfective
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j.ḥs1, ḥs, ḥsy, ḥsw5
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j.ḥs1, j.ḥsw1 5, ḥs, ḥsj6, ḥsy6
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ḥs, ḥsw5
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| prospective
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ḥs, ḥstj7
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ḥstj4, ḥst4
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- 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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥs
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from the Stela of Nesumontu (Louvre C1)
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Noun
m
- (uncountable) feces, excrement (of humans or animals)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥs
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in hieratic;
abbreviation
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 164.4–164.9, 166.1
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 177
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 261.
