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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3ae inf.
- (transitive) to protect, to defend (a person, body, or place) (+ m-ꜥ or (Late Period) r: against, from; + m: by means of, with)
- (transitive) to rule, to serve as protector of (a place)
- (transitive) to guard (someone to be restrained), to keep watch over in order to restrain
- (transitive) to exclude, to exempt, especially from tax dues
- (transitive) to set aside for some purpose, especially to set aside as holy or sacred
- (transitive) to prevent, to preclude, to avoid
- (transitive) to furnish, to equip (+ m or (Greco-Roman Period) ẖr: with)
Inflection
Conjugation of ḫwj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḫw
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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ḫwt, ḫwj
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ḫww, ḫw
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ḫwt, ḫwwt, ḫwyt
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ḫw
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ḫw, ḫwy
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suffix conjugation
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aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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perfect
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ḫw.n
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ḫww, ḫw, ḫwy
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consecutive
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ḫw.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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terminative
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ḫwt, ḫwyt
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perfective3
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ḫw
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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ḫw.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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imperfective
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ḫw, ḫwy
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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prospective3
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ḫww, ḫw, ḫwy
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ḫww, ḫw, ḫwy
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potentialis1
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ḫw.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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subjunctive
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ḫw, ḫwy
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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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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passive
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active
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passive
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perfect
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ḫw.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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perfective
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ḫww1, ḫwy, ḫw
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ḫw
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ḫwy, ḫw
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imperfective
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ḫw, ḫwy, ḫww5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ḫw, ḫwj6, ḫwy6
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ḫw, ḫww5
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prospective
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ḫww1, ḫwy, ḫw, ḫwtj7
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—
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ḫwwtj1 4, ḫwtj4, ḫwt4
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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 hieroglyphic writings of ḫwj
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ḫwj
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ḫwj
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ḫwj
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ḫwj
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ḫwj
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abbreviation
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Derived terms
References
- “ḫwi̯ (lemma ID 115110)”, “ḫwi̯ (lemma ID 114920)”, and “ḫwi̯ (lemma ID 852623)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 244.10–245.22
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 186
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 262.