ẖꜣk

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɑk/
  • Conventional anglicization: khak

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) cunning, devious (+ r: to be hostile against)

Usage notes

This verb is almost exclusively used as part of the term ẖꜣk-jb.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ẖꜣk	ẖꜣkw, ẖꜣk	ẖꜣkt	ẖꜣk	ẖꜣk

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ẖꜣk.n	consecutive	ẖꜣk.jn
terminative	ẖꜣkt
perfective3	ẖꜣk	obligative1	ẖꜣk.ḫr
imperfective	ẖꜣk
prospective3	ẖꜣk	potentialis1	ẖꜣk.kꜣ
subjunctive	ẖꜣk

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ẖꜣk.n	—	—
perfective	ẖꜣk	ẖꜣk	ẖꜣk, ẖꜣkw5, ẖꜣky5
imperfective	ẖꜣk, ẖꜣky, ẖꜣkw5	ẖꜣk, ẖꜣkj6, ẖꜣky6	ẖꜣk, ẖꜣkw5
prospective	ẖꜣk, ẖꜣktj7	ẖꜣktj4, ẖꜣkt4
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.

Derived terms

• ẖꜣk-jb

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 363.11–363.12