Egyptian
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Etymology
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Compare with Akkadian 𒉺𒀀𒄣 (pa-a-qu /pāqu, piāqu/, “narrow”) and Arabic ف و ق (f w q, literally “the small notch of the clavicle, the top of the shoulders, the thin dimensions of the coronal plane looking down from above the torso”), verb forms VII and VIII showing its connection to shortness, to become thin, emaciated, to wear out, and to die of coughing or shortness of breath, gasping.
Pronunciation
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4ae inf.
- (intransitive) to be(come) thin
Inflection
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Conjugation of pꜣqj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: pꜣq
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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pꜣq.n
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| perfective
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pꜣqw1, pꜣqy, pꜣq
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pꜣq
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pꜣqy, pꜣq
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| imperfective
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pꜣq, pꜣqy, pꜣqw5
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pꜣq, pꜣqj6, pꜣqy6
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pꜣq, pꜣqw5
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| prospective
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pꜣqw1, pꜣqy, pꜣq, pꜣqtj7
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pꜣqwtj1 4, pꜣqtj4, pꜣqt4
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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.
- Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.
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