wꜣḫj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑxi/
  • Conventional anglicization: wakhi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) inundated

Inflection

Conjugation of wꜣḫj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: wꜣḫ, geminated stem: wꜣḫḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wꜣḫ	wꜣḫw, wꜣḫyw, wꜣḫ	wꜣḫt, wꜣḫwt, wꜣḫyt	wꜣḫ	wꜣḫ, wꜣḫy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
wꜣḫ8	ḥr wꜣḫ	m wꜣḫ	r wꜣḫ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	wꜣḫ.n	consecutive	wꜣḫ.jn
terminative	wꜣḫt
perfective3	wꜣḫ	obligative1	wꜣḫ.ḫr
imperfective	wꜣḫ, wꜣḫy
prospective3	wꜣḫw, wꜣḫ, wꜣḫy	potentialis1	wꜣḫ.kꜣ
subjunctive	wꜣḫ, wꜣḫy

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	wꜣḫ.n	—	—
perfective	wꜣḫw1, wꜣḫy, wꜣḫ	wꜣḫ	wꜣḫy, wꜣḫ
imperfective	wꜣḫḫ, wꜣḫḫy, wꜣḫḫw5	wꜣḫḫ, wꜣḫḫj6, wꜣḫḫy6	wꜣḫḫ, wꜣḫḫw5
prospective	wꜣḫw1, wꜣḫy, wꜣḫ, wꜣḫtj7	wꜣḫwtj1 4, wꜣḫtj4, wꜣḫt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Noun

 m

1. columned hall (figuratively as flooded land, with lotiform and papyriform columns)

Inflection

Declension of wꜣḫj (masculine)

singular	wꜣḫj
dual	wꜣḫjwj
plural	wꜣḫjw

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 309, 356, 458.