bꜥḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /bɑːh/
  • Conventional anglicization: bah

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of a name) to be detested, to be reviled; perhaps literally ‘to stink’

Inflection

Conjugation of bꜥḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: bꜥḥ, geminated stem: bꜥḥḥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
bꜥḥ	bꜥḥw, bꜥḥ	bꜥḥt	bꜥḥ	bꜥḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	bꜥḥ.n	consecutive	bꜥḥ.jn
terminative	bꜥḥt
perfective3	bꜥḥ	obligative1	bꜥḥ.ḫr
imperfective	bꜥḥ
prospective3	bꜥḥ	potentialis1	bꜥḥ.kꜣ
subjunctive	bꜥḥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	bꜥḥ.n	—	—
perfective	bꜥḥ	bꜥḥ	bꜥḥ, bꜥḥw5, bꜥḥy5
imperfective	bꜥḥ, bꜥḥy, bꜥḥw5	bꜥḥ, bꜥḥj6, bꜥḥy6	bꜥḥ, bꜥḥw5
prospective	bꜥḥ, bꜥḥtj7	bꜥḥtj4, bꜥḥt4
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.

References

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 140
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 450.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 81