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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) short in length
- (intransitive, of food and drink) to be(come) scarce, limited
Inflection
Conjugation of ḥwꜥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥwꜥ, geminated stem: ḥwꜥꜥ
| infinitival forms
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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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ḥwꜥ
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ḥwꜥw, ḥwꜥ
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ḥwꜥt
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ḥwꜥ
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ḥwꜥ
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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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ḥwꜥ
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ḥr ḥwꜥ
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m ḥwꜥ
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r ḥwꜥ
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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| perfect
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ḥwꜥ.n
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consecutive
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ḥwꜥ.jn
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| terminative
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ḥwꜥt
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| perfective3
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ḥwꜥ
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obligative1
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ḥwꜥ.ḫr
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| imperfective
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ḥwꜥ
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| prospective3
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ḥwꜥ
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potentialis1
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ḥwꜥ.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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ḥwꜥ
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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ḥwꜥ.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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ḥwꜥ
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ḥwꜥ
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ḥwꜥ, ḥwꜥw5, ḥwꜥy5
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| imperfective
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ḥwꜥ, ḥwꜥy, ḥwꜥw5
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ḥwꜥ, ḥwꜥj6, ḥwꜥy6
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ḥwꜥ, ḥwꜥw5
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| prospective
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ḥwꜥ, ḥwꜥtj7
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ḥwꜥtj4, ḥwꜥt4
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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 ḥwꜥ
Derived terms
Noun
m
- dwarf, short person
Inflection
Declension of ḥwꜥ (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwꜥ
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 51.12–51.17, 52
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 166
