ꜣk

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑk/
  • Conventional anglicization: ak

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive, hapax, of the elbow) to be(come) bent, to bend

Usage notes

Used in Version L1 of the Maxims of Ptahhotep where other versions have ḫꜣb (“to bend”) instead.

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜣk (second weak / 2ae inf. / II. inf.) — base stem: ꜣk

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣk	ꜣkw, ꜣk	ꜣkt	ꜣk, j.ꜣk	ꜣk, j.ꜣk

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜣk.n	consecutive	ꜣk.jn
terminative	ꜣkt
perfective3	ꜣk	obligative1	ꜣk.ḫr
imperfective	ꜣk
prospective3	ꜣkw1, ꜣk	potentialis1	ꜣk.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜣk

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣk.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣk	ꜣk	ꜣk2, ꜣkw2 5, ꜣky2 5
imperfective	ꜣk, ꜣky, ꜣkw5	ꜣk, ꜣkj6, ꜣky6	ꜣk, ꜣkw5
prospective	ꜣk, ꜣktj7	ꜣktj4, ꜣkt4
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.

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 22.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 6