ḥzj

See also: ẖzj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛzi/
  • Conventional anglicization: hezi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to praise, to bless, to honor (someone, someone’s speech, someone’s conduct, etc.) (+ ḥr: for)
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 1.1:

     wḏꜣ snḏw ḥz mt

     The deferential man is sound; the scrupulous man is honored.

2. (transitive, uncommon) to honor (someone) with something, to favor, to reward (+ m: with)

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥzj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḥz, geminated stem: ḥzz

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḥzt, ḥzj	ḥzw, ḥz	ḥzt, ḥzwt, ḥzyt	ḥz	ḥz, ḥzy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ḥz8, ḥzz8	ḥr ḥzt, ḥr ḥzj	m ḥzt, m ḥzj	r ḥzt, r ḥzj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ḥz.n	ḥzw, ḥz, ḥzy	consecutive	ḥz.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ḥzt, ḥzyt
perfective3	ḥz	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ḥz.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ḥz, ḥzy	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ḥzw, ḥz, ḥzy	ḥzw, ḥz, ḥzy	potentialis1	ḥz.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ḥz, ḥzy	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḥz.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḥzw1, ḥzy, ḥz	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḥz	ḥzy, ḥz
imperfective	ḥzz, ḥzzy, ḥzzw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḥzz, ḥzzj6, ḥzzy6	ḥzz, ḥzzw5
prospective	ḥzw1, ḥzy, ḥz, ḥztj7	—	ḥzwtj1 4, ḥztj4, ḥzt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥzj  

ḥzj

Derived terms

• ḥzt
• ḥz.tj

Descendants

• Coptic: ϩⲱⲥ (hōs)

References

• “ḥzi̯ (lemma ID 109620)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 154.2–155.25
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 176
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 268, 465.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 128