sḥtp

Egyptian[edit]

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ḥtp (“to be content”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛhɛtɛp/
- Conventional anglicization: sehetep

caus. 3-lit.

(transitive) to make content, to propitiate, to calm
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 140–142:
  
  dj.j jn.t(w) n.k jbj ḥknw jwdnb ẖsꜣyt sntr n(j) gsw prw sḥtpw nṯr nb jm.f
  I will have them bring you laudanum, ḥknw-oil, jwdnb-incense, cassia, and the incense of the temple storerooms, with which every god is made content.

Conjugation of sḥtp (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: sḥtp

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sḥtp	sḥtpw, sḥtp	sḥtpt	sḥtp	sḥtp

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sḥtp.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sḥtp	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḥtp	sḥtp, sḥtpw⁵, sḥtpy⁵
imperfective	sḥtp, sḥtpy, sḥtpw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḥtp, sḥtpj⁶, sḥtpy⁶	sḥtp, sḥtpw⁵
prospective	sḥtp, sḥtptj⁷	—	sḥtpwtj^{1 4}, sḥtptj⁴, sḥtpt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 164.