ꜥqꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːkɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: aqa

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) correct
2. (intransitive) to be(come) straight

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥqꜣ	ꜥqꜣw, ꜥqꜣ	ꜥqꜣt	ꜥqꜣ	ꜥqꜣ

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜥqꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	ꜥqꜣ	ꜥqꜣ	ꜥqꜣ, ꜥqꜣw5, ꜥqꜣy5
imperfective	ꜥqꜣ, ꜥqꜣy, ꜥqꜣw5	ꜥqꜣ, ꜥqꜣj6, ꜥqꜣy6	ꜥqꜣ, ꜥqꜣw5
prospective	ꜥqꜣ, ꜥqꜣtj7	ꜥqꜣtj4, ꜥqꜣt4
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

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 260.