ḥww

Egyptian[edit]

3ae inf.

(transitive) to proclaim, to utter (+ n: to) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḥwt, ḥwj	ḥww, ḥw	ḥwt, ḥwwt, ḥwyt	ḥw	ḥw, ḥwy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ḥw⁸, ḥww⁸	ḥr ḥwt, ḥr ḥwj	m ḥwt, m ḥwj	r ḥwt, r ḥwj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḥw.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ḥww¹, ḥwy, ḥw	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḥw	ḥwy, ḥw
imperfective	ḥww, ḥwwy, ḥwww⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḥww, ḥwwj⁶, ḥwwy⁶	ḥww, ḥwww⁵
prospective	ḥww¹, ḥwy, ḥw, ḥwtj⁷	—	ḥwwtj^{1 4}, ḥwtj⁴, ḥwt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥww

ḥww

ḥwj

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 44.3
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 164