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See also: jwh

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

E9wHmwA24

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to moisten, to wet (something) (+ m: with)
  2. (transitive) to water (plants, fields, barren land), including by flood
  3. (transitive) to sprinkle or apply (a liquid healing substance) (+ m: on or in)
  4. (transitive) to make an offering of (water, beer, or another liquid)
  5. (intransitive) to weep, to cry, to mourn

Inflection

Conjugation of jwḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: jwḥ, geminated stem: jwḥḥ
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
jwḥ
 jwḥw, jwḥ
 jwḥt
 jwḥ
 jwḥ
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
jwḥ
 ḥr jwḥ
 m jwḥ
 r jwḥ
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect jwḥ.n
 jwḥw, jwḥ
 consecutive jwḥ.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative jwḥt
perfective3 jwḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 jwḥ.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective jwḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 jwḥ
 jwḥḥ
 potentialis1 jwḥ.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive jwḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect jwḥ.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective jwḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 jwḥ
 jwḥ, jwḥw5, jwḥy5
imperfective jwḥ, jwḥy, jwḥw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 jwḥ, jwḥj6, jwḥy6
 jwḥ, jwḥw5
prospective jwḥ, jwḥtj7
 — jwḥtj4, jwḥt4

1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
3 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.
4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular.
6 Only in the masculine.
7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwḥ  
E9wHmw
E9Hmw
E9wHmwnwA24
E9
W		 Ha
N35B		 A24
jwḥ jwḥ jwḥ jwḥꜥ
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jwḥ  
E9
bH		 N36
E9
W N21		 mw
E9W
H_SPACE		 bH
a		 N36
E9
bH		 W
H_SPACE		 A2
E9W
H_SPACE		 bH
a		 D9
jwḥ jw jwḥꜥ jwḥ jwḥꜥ
in sense ‘weep’ in sense ‘weep’

Derived terms

References

  • “jwḥ (lemma ID 23000)”, 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 (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 57.1–57.8, 57.13
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14
  • Hoch, James (1997), Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 244
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