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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
( transitive ) light (a fire ) [since the Pyramid Texts] ( intransitive ) light a fire [Greco-Roman Period] ( intransitive , of fire) burn [Book of the Dead] ( transitive ) burn (something) [Late Period to Greco-Roman Period] ( transitive , of fire) heat (something) [19th Dynasty medical texts]
Inflection
Conjugation of rkḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: rkḥ , geminated stem: rkḥḥ
infinitival forms
imperative
infinitive
negatival complement
complementary infinitive1
singular
plural
rkḥ rkḥw , rkḥ rkḥt rkḥ rkḥ
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem
periphrastic imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2
rkḥ ḥr rkḥ m rkḥ r rkḥ
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
passive
contingent
aspect / mood
active
passive
perfect
rkḥ.n rkḥw , rkḥ consecutive
rkḥ.jn active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
terminative
rkḥt
perfective 3
rkḥ active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 obligative1
rkḥ.ḫr active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
imperfective
rkḥ active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
prospective 3
rkḥ rkḥḥ potentialis1
rkḥ.kꜣ active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
subjunctive
rkḥ active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
passive
active
passive
perfect
rkḥ.n active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 —
—
perfective
rkḥ active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 rkḥ rkḥ , rkḥw 5 , rkḥy 5
imperfective
rkḥ , rkḥy , rkḥw 5 active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 rkḥ , rkḥj 6 , rkḥy 6 rkḥ , rkḥw 5
prospective
rkḥ , rkḥtj 7 —
rkḥtj 4 , rkḥt 4
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 .s .sj .sn .snj .sn
Only in the masculine singular.
Only in the masculine.
Only in the feminine.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rkḥ
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