mḏḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛd͡ʒɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: medjeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to hew (wood or stone)
2. (transitive) to build (a ship)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
mḏḥ	mḏḥw, mḏḥ	mḏḥt	mḏḥ	mḏḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	mḏḥ.n	mḏḥw, mḏḥ	consecutive	mḏḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	mḏḥt
perfective3	mḏḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	mḏḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	mḏḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	mḏḥ	mḏḥḥ	potentialis1	mḏḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	mḏḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	mḏḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	mḏḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	mḏḥ	mḏḥ, mḏḥw5, mḏḥy5
imperfective	mḏḥ, mḏḥy, mḏḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	mḏḥ, mḏḥj6, mḏḥy6	mḏḥ, mḏḥw5
prospective	mḏḥ, mḏḥtj7	—	mḏḥtj4, mḏḥt4
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 128