ḥwj

See also: hwj and ḫwj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /huːi/
  • Conventional anglicization: hui

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to hit, to strike, to beat
2. (transitive) to tread (a road)

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥwj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḥw

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḥwt, ḥwj	ḥww, ḥw	ḥwt, ḥwwt, ḥwyt	ḥw	ḥw, ḥwy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ḥw8	ḥr ḥwt, ḥr ḥwj	m ḥwt, m ḥwj	r ḥwt, r ḥwj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ḥw.n	ḥww, ḥw, ḥwy	consecutive	ḥw.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ḥwt, ḥwyt
perfective3	ḥw	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ḥw.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ḥw, ḥwy	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ḥww, ḥw, ḥwy	ḥww, ḥw, ḥwy	potentialis1	ḥw.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ḥw, ḥwy	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḥw.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḥww1, ḥwy, ḥw	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḥw	ḥwy, ḥw
imperfective	ḥw, ḥwy, ḥww5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḥw, ḥwj6, ḥwy6	ḥw, ḥww5
prospective	ḥww1, ḥwy, ḥw, ḥwtj7	—	ḥwwtj1 4, ḥwtj4, ḥwt4
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 ḥwj  

ḥwj	ḥj	ḥj

Derived terms

• nswt-ḥw
• ḥwnj

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 251, 253.
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 98