pzḫ

See also: pzḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːzaχ/ → /ˈpaːsaχ/ → /ˈpaːsəχ/ → /ˈpoːsəχ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːzaχ/ (infinitive)
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːsaχ/ (infinitive)
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːsəχ/ (infinitive)
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpoːsəχ/ (infinitive)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛzɛx/
  • Conventional anglicization: pezekh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be distraught

   ― pzḫ jb.j ― My heart stopped.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
pzḫ	pzḫw, pzḫ	pzḫt	pzḫ	pzḫ

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	pzḫ.n	—	—
perfective	pzḫ	pzḫ	pzḫ, pzḫw5, pzḫy5
imperfective	pzḫ, pzḫy, pzḫw5	pzḫ, pzḫj6, pzḫy6	pzḫ, pzḫw5
prospective	pzḫ, pzḫtj7	pzḫtj4, pzḫt4
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.

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲡⲱⲥⳉ (pōsx)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲱϣⲥ (pōšs)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 550.16–550.18