wḥꜣ

See also: wḫꜣ

Egyptian[edit]

3-lit.

(transitive) to separate by pulling away [since the Old Kingdom]
1. (transitive) to pluck (fruit)
2. (transitive) to uproot (papyrus, flax, etc.)
3. (transitive) to quarry (stone)
(transitive, rare) to dig up (earth) [Greco-Roman Period]
(transitive, rare) to kill (evil ones) [Greco-Roman Period]

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
wḥꜣ	wḥꜣw, wḥꜣ	wḥꜣt	wḥꜣ	wḥꜣ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wḥꜣ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	wḥꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	wḥꜣ	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣw⁵, wḥꜣy⁵
imperfective	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣy, wḥꜣw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣj⁶, wḥꜣy⁶	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣw⁵
prospective	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣtj⁷	—	wḥꜣtj⁴, wḥꜣt⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of wḥꜣ

wḥꜣ

[Old Kingdom]

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 346.15–347.5