rḫs

See also: RHS

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛxɛs/
  • Conventional anglicization: rekhes

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to butcher, to slaughter

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
rḫs	rḫsw, rḫs	rḫst	rḫs	rḫs

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	rḫs.n	rḫsw, rḫs	consecutive	rḫs.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	rḫst
perfective3	rḫs	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	rḫs.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	rḫs	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	rḫs	rḫss	potentialis1	rḫs.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	rḫs	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	rḫs.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	rḫs	active + .tj1, .tw2	rḫs	rḫs, rḫsw5, rḫsy5
imperfective	rḫs, rḫsy, rḫsw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	rḫs, rḫsj6, rḫsy6	rḫs, rḫsw5
prospective	rḫs, rḫstj7	—	rḫstj4, rḫst4
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

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 150.