qꜣꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare qjs (“to vomit”), qꜣ, qꜣꜣ (“to be putrid; to vomit”), Ge'ez ቄአ (ḳeʾä), present ይቂእ (yəḳiʾ, “to vomit”), Tigre ቀኣ (ḳäʾa, “to vomit”), Arabic قَاءَ (qāʔa), present يَقِيءُ (yaqīʔu, “to vomit”), Hebrew קָא (qāʾ), present יָקִיא (yāqīʾ, “to vomit”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑʔɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: qaa

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to vomit, to spew out

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
qꜣꜥ	qꜣꜥw, qꜣꜥ	qꜣꜥt	qꜣꜥ	qꜣꜥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	qꜣꜥ.n	qꜣꜥw, qꜣꜥ	consecutive	qꜣꜥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	qꜣꜥt
perfective3	qꜣꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	qꜣꜥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	qꜣꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	qꜣꜥ	qꜣꜥꜥ	potentialis1	qꜣꜥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	qꜣꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	qꜣꜥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	qꜣꜥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	qꜣꜥ	qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥw5, qꜣꜥy5
imperfective	qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥy, qꜣꜥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥj6, qꜣꜥy6	qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥw5
prospective	qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥtj7	—	qꜣꜥtj4, qꜣꜥt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of qꜣꜥ  

qꜥ

[since the New Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 7.5–7.16
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 456