ḥsq

Egyptian[edit]

3-lit.

(transitive, of people or animals) to behead [since the Pyramid Texts]
(transitive, of body parts, especially the head) to sever, to cut off [since the Pyramid Texts]
- c. 1600 BCE, Westcar Papyrus 7,4:
  
  jw.f rḫ ṯz tp ḥsq
  He knows how to reattach a severed head.

Conjugation of ḥsq (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥsq, geminated stem: ḥsqq

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḥsq	ḥsqw, ḥsq	ḥsqt	ḥsq	ḥsq

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ḥsq	ḥr ḥsq	m ḥsq	r ḥsq

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḥsq.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ḥsq	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḥsq	ḥsq, ḥsqw⁵, ḥsqy⁵
imperfective	ḥsq, ḥsqy, ḥsqw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḥsq, ḥsqj⁶, ḥsqy⁶	ḥsq, ḥsqw⁵
prospective	ḥsq, ḥsqtj⁷	—	ḥsqtj⁴, ḥsqt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥsq

ḥsq

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 213.
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 168.15–169.2