Perhaps a reduplication of ꜣḫf (“burning appetite (?)”). Compare also ḫfꜣj (“to illuminate”).
5-lit.
- (intransitive, of the eyes) to be fiery, to blaze [Coffin Texts]
Conjugation of ꜣḫfḫf (quinquiliteral / 5-lit. / 5rad.) — base stem: ꜣḫfḫf
infinitival forms
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imperative
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infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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ꜣḫfḫf
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ꜣḫfḫfw, ꜣḫfḫf
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ꜣḫfḫft
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ꜣḫfḫf
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ꜣḫfḫf
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‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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ꜣḫfḫf
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ḥr ꜣḫfḫf
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m ꜣḫfḫf
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r ꜣḫfḫf
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suffix conjugation
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aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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aspect / mood
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active
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perfect
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ꜣḫfḫf.n
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consecutive
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ꜣḫfḫf.jn
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terminative
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ꜣḫfḫft
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perfective3
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ꜣḫfḫf
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obligative1
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ꜣḫfḫf.ḫr
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imperfective
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ꜣḫfḫf
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prospective3
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ꜣḫfḫfw, ꜣḫfḫf
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potentialis1
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ꜣḫfḫf.kꜣ
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subjunctive
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ꜣḫfḫf
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verbal adjectives
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aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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active
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active
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passive
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perfect
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ꜣḫfḫf.n
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—
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—
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perfective
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ꜣḫfḫf
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ꜣḫfḫf
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ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfw5, ꜣḫfḫfy5
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imperfective
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ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfy, ꜣḫfḫfw5
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ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfj6, ꜣḫfḫfy6
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ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfw5
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prospective
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ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫftj7
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ꜣḫfḫfwtj1 4, ꜣḫfḫftj4, ꜣḫfḫft4
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- 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.
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- “ꜣḫfḫf (lemma ID 257)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 19.5
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 5