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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- toe
Inflection
Declension of sꜣḥ (masculine)
Verb
3-lit.
- (transitive) to set foot on, to arrive at
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 101–103:
- ḏꜥ pr(.w) jw.n m wꜣḏ-wr tp ꜥ sꜣḥ.n tꜣ
- A stormwind emerged while we were at sea, before we could set foot on land.
c. 1859 BCE – 1800 BCE,
The Eloquent Peasant, version B2 (pAmherst 2 and pBerlin 3025) lines 101–103:
- jr sqdd ẖr.f nj sꜣḥ.n.f tꜣ nj mjn.n dpwt.f r dmj.s
- As for him who sails with it, he cannot set foot on land, and his boat cannot moor at its harbor.
Inflection
Conjugation of sꜣḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sꜣḥ, geminated stem: sꜣḥḥ
| 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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sꜣḥ
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sꜣḥw, sꜣḥ
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sꜣḥt
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sꜣḥ
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sꜣḥ
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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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sꜣḥ
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ḥr sꜣḥ
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m sꜣḥ
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r sꜣḥ
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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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sꜣḥ.n
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sꜣḥw, sꜣḥ
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consecutive
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sꜣḥ.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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sꜣḥt
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| perfective3
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sꜣḥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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sꜣḥ.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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sꜣḥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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sꜣḥ
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sꜣḥḥ
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potentialis1
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sꜣḥ.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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sꜣḥ
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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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sꜣḥ.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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sꜣḥ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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sꜣḥ
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sꜣḥ, sꜣḥw5, sꜣḥy5
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| imperfective
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sꜣḥ, sꜣḥy, sꜣḥw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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sꜣḥ, sꜣḥj6, sꜣḥy6
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sꜣḥ, sꜣḥw5
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| prospective
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sꜣḥ, sꜣḥtj7
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—
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sꜣḥtj4, sꜣḥt4
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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 sꜣḥ
Derived terms
Proper noun
m
- (astronomy) Orion (constellation)
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 36.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 98
