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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- fool
c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE,
Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 99–101:
- wꜥ jm nb mꜥkꜣ jb.f nḫt ꜥ.f r snnw.f nn wḫꜣ m ḥr(j) jb.sn
- Each one of them, his mind was more observant and his arm was stronger than his fellow’s. There was no fool in their midst.
Inflection
Declension of wḫꜣ (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wḫꜣ
Verb
3-lit.
- (transitive) to seek, to look for
Inflection
Conjugation of wḫꜣ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wḫꜣ, geminated stem: wḫꜣꜣ
| 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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wḫꜣ
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wḫꜣw, wḫꜣ
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wḫꜣt
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wḫꜣ
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wḫꜣ
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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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wḫꜣ
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ḥr wḫꜣ
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m wḫꜣ
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r wḫꜣ
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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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wḫꜣ.n
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wḫꜣw, wḫꜣ
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consecutive
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wḫꜣ.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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wḫꜣt
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| perfective3
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wḫꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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wḫꜣ.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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wḫꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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wḫꜣ
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wḫꜣꜣ
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potentialis1
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wḫꜣ.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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wḫꜣ
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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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wḫꜣ.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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wḫꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wḫꜣ
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wḫꜣ, wḫꜣw5, wḫꜣy5
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| imperfective
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wḫꜣ, wḫꜣy, wḫꜣw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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wḫꜣ, wḫꜣj6, wḫꜣy6
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wḫꜣ, wḫꜣw5
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| prospective
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wḫꜣ, wḫꜣtj7
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—
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wḫꜣtj4, wḫꜣt4
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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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Synonyms
References
- James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 131, 263.
