pḥrr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛhrɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: pehrer

Verb

 3ae gem.

1. (intransitive) to run

Inflection

Conjugation of pḥrr (third geminate / 3ae gem. / III. gem.) , geminated stem: pḥrr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
pḥrr	pḥrr	pḥrrt	pḥrr	pḥrr

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	pḥrr.n	consecutive	pḥrr.jn
terminative	pḥrrt
perfective3	pḥrr	obligative1	pḥrr.ḫr
imperfective	pḥrr
prospective3	pḥrrw, pḥrr	potentialis1	pḥrr.kꜣ
subjunctive	pḥrr

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	pḥrr.n	—	—
perfective	pḥrr	pḥrr	pḥrr, pḥrrw5, pḥrry5
imperfective	pḥrr, pḥrry, pḥrrw5	pḥrr, pḥrrj6, pḥrry6	pḥrr, pḥrrw5
prospective	pḥrr, pḥrrtj7	pḥrrwtj1 4, pḥrrtj4, pḥrrt4
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.

In the oldest occurrences of this verb in the Pyramid Texts and other Old Kingdom tombs, as well as some later uses in the Amduat, this verb does not exhibit gemination, has transitive uses, and may be a 3ae-inf. verb rather than 3ae-gem:

Conjugation of pḥrr (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: pḥr, geminated stem: pḥrr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
pḥrt, pḥrj	pḥrw, pḥr	pḥrt, pḥrwt, pḥryt	pḥr	pḥr, pḥry

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
pḥr8, pḥrr8	ḥr pḥrt, ḥr pḥrj	m pḥrt, m pḥrj	r pḥrt, r pḥrj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	pḥr.n	pḥrw, pḥr, pḥry	consecutive	pḥr.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	pḥrt, pḥryt
perfective3	pḥr	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	pḥr.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	pḥr, pḥry	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	pḥrw, pḥr, pḥry	pḥrw, pḥr, pḥry	potentialis1	pḥr.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	pḥr, pḥry	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	pḥr.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	pḥrw1, pḥry, pḥr	active + .tj1, .tw2	pḥr	pḥry, pḥr
imperfective	pḥrr, pḥrry, pḥrrw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	pḥrr, pḥrrj6, pḥrry6	pḥrr, pḥrrw5
prospective	pḥrw1, pḥry, pḥr, pḥrtj7	—	pḥrwtj1 4, pḥrtj4, pḥrt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

References

• “pḥrr (lemma ID 61590)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 164.