ḥꜣj

See also: hꜣj and ḫꜣj

Egyptian edit

ḥꜣ (“behind, around”) +‎ -j (“nisba ending”).

Declension of ḥꜣj (nisba adjective)

	masculine	feminine
singular	ḥꜣj	ḥꜣt
dual	ḥꜣjwj, ḥꜣwj	ḥꜣtj
plural	ḥꜣjw, ḥꜣw	ḥꜣwt¹, ḥꜣt²
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

3ae inf.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḥꜣt, ḥꜣj	ḥꜣw, ḥꜣ	ḥꜣt, ḥꜣwt, ḥꜣyt	ḥꜣ	ḥꜣ, ḥꜣy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ḥꜣ⁸	ḥr ḥꜣt, ḥr ḥꜣj	m ḥꜣt, m ḥꜣj	r ḥꜣt, r ḥꜣj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ḥꜣ.n	—	—
perfective	ḥꜣw¹, ḥꜣy, ḥꜣ	ḥꜣ	ḥꜣy, ḥꜣ
imperfective	ḥꜣ, ḥꜣy, ḥꜣw⁵	ḥꜣ, ḥꜣj⁶, ḥꜣy⁶	ḥꜣ, ḥꜣw⁵
prospective	ḥꜣw¹, ḥꜣy, ḥꜣ, ḥꜣtj⁷	ḥꜣwtj^{1 4}, ḥꜣtj⁴, ḥꜣt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 36, 91.