nwḫ

See also: nwḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nuːx/
  • Conventional anglicization: nukh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) scorched
2. (transitive) to heat

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nwḫ	nwḫw, nwḫ	nwḫt	nwḫ	nwḫ

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nwḫ.n	—	—
perfective	nwḫ	nwḫ	nwḫ, nwḫw5, nwḫy5
imperfective	nwḫ, nwḫy, nwḫw5	nwḫ, nwḫj6, nwḫy6	nwḫ, nwḫw5
prospective	nwḫ, nwḫtj7	nwḫtj4, nwḫt4
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

• snwḫ

 

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲗⲱⲃϣ (lōbš)

References

• Dickson, Paul (2006) Dictionary of Middle Egyptian in Gardiner Classification Order‎^[1]