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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
4ae inf.
- (intransitive) to sail upstream
Inflection
Conjugation of ḫsfj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḫsf, geminated stem: ḫsff
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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ḫsf8
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ḥr ḫsf
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m ḫsf
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r ḫsf
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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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ḫsf.n
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—
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—
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perfective
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ḫsfw1, ḫsfy, ḫsf
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ḫsf
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ḫsfy, ḫsf
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imperfective
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ḫsff, ḫsffy, ḫsffw5
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ḫsff, ḫsffj6, ḫsffy6
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ḫsff, ḫsffw5
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prospective
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ḫsfw1, ḫsfy, ḫsf, ḫsftj7
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ḫsfwtj1 4, ḫsftj4, ḫsft4
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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.
- Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫsfj
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 337.14–337.16
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 197–198