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Egyptian
Etymology
Reduplication of qḥ (“to break stones”).
Pronunciation
Verb
4-lit.
- (transitive) to hammer, to beat (metal: copper, gold, or silver) into a sheet
- ― ḥḏ m qḥqḥ ― beaten silver
- (transitive) to hammer at, to carve (a sculpture)
Inflection
Conjugation of qḥqḥ (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: qḥqḥ
| 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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qḥqḥ
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qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ
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qḥqḥt
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qḥqḥ
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qḥqḥ
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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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qḥqḥ
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ḥr qḥqḥ
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m qḥqḥ
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r qḥqḥ
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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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qḥqḥ.n
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qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ
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consecutive
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qḥqḥ.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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qḥqḥt
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| perfective3
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qḥqḥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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qḥqḥ.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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qḥqḥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ
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qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ
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potentialis1
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qḥqḥ.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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qḥqḥ
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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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qḥqḥ.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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qḥqḥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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qḥqḥ
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qḥqḥ, qḥqḥw5, qḥqḥy5
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| imperfective
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qḥqḥ, qḥqḥy, qḥqḥw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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qḥqḥ, qḥqḥj6, qḥqḥy6
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qḥqḥ, qḥqḥw5
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| prospective
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qḥqḥ, qḥqḥtj7
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—
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qḥqḥwtj1 4, qḥqḥtj4, qḥqḥt4
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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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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “qḥqḥ (lemma ID 162150)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 67.6–67.8
