sꜣḫꜣḫ

Egyptian[edit]

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ꜣḫꜣḫ (“to be verdant”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛɑxɑx/
- Conventional anglicization: seakhakh

caus. 4-lit.

Conjugation of sꜣḫꜣḫ (causative quadriliteral / caus. 4-lit. / caus. 4rad.) — base stem: sꜣḫꜣḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sꜣḫꜣḫ	sꜣḫꜣḫw, sꜣḫꜣḫ	sꜣḫꜣḫt	sꜣḫꜣḫ	sꜣḫꜣḫ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sꜣḫꜣḫ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sꜣḫꜣḫ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sꜣḫꜣḫ	sꜣḫꜣḫ, sꜣḫꜣḫw⁵, sꜣḫꜣḫy⁵
imperfective	sꜣḫꜣḫ, sꜣḫꜣḫy, sꜣḫꜣḫw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sꜣḫꜣḫ, sꜣḫꜣḫj⁶, sꜣḫꜣḫy⁶	sꜣḫꜣḫ, sꜣḫꜣḫw⁵
prospective	sꜣḫꜣḫ, sꜣḫꜣḫtj⁷	—	sꜣḫꜣḫwtj^{1 4}, sꜣḫꜣḫtj⁴, sꜣḫꜣḫt⁴
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 158.