fḫ

See also: FH and fH

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /fɛx/
  • Conventional anglicization: fekh

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to give up or lose (something)
2. (intransitive) to depart

Inflection

Conjugation of fḫ (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: fḫ, geminated stem: fḫḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
fḫ	fḫw, fḫ	fḫt	fḫ, j.fḫ	fḫ, j.fḫ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	fḫ.n	fḫw, fḫ	consecutive	fḫ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	fḫt
perfective3	fḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	fḫ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	fḫ, j.fḫ1	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	fḫ	fḫḫ	potentialis1	fḫ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	fḫ, j.fḫ1	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	fḫ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	fḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	fḫ	fḫḫ, fḫḫj6, fḫ2, fḫw2 5, fḫy2 5
imperfective	j.fḫ1, fḫ, fḫy, fḫw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	j.fḫ1, j.fḫw1 5, fḫ, fḫj6, fḫy6	fḫ, fḫw5
prospective	fḫ, fḫtj7	—	fḫtj4, fḫt4
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.

Derived terms

• fḫḫ
• mfḫ
• sfḫ
• sfḫḫ

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 346.
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 98