rkḥ
See also: rkḥ-ꜥꜣ
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈɾaːkaħ/ → /ˈɾaːkaħ/ → /ˈɾaːkəħ/ → /ˈɾoːkəħ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /rɛkɛh/
- Conventional anglicization: rekeh
Verb
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3-lit.
- (transitive) to light (a fire) [since the Pyramid Texts]
- (intransitive) to light a fire [Greco-Roman Period]
- (intransitive, of fire) to burn [Book of the Dead]
- (transitive) to burn (something) [Late Period to Greco-Roman Period]
- (transitive, of fire) to heat (something) [19th Dynasty medical texts]
Inflection
editConjugation of rkḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: rkḥ, geminated stem: rkḥḥ
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
rkḥ |
rkḥw, rkḥ |
rkḥt |
rkḥ |
rkḥ |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
rkḥ |
ḥr rkḥ |
m rkḥ |
r rkḥ |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | rkḥ.n |
rkḥw, rkḥ |
consecutive | rkḥ.jn |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | rkḥt | ||||
perfective3 | rkḥ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
obligative1 | rkḥ.ḫr |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | rkḥ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | rkḥ |
rkḥḥ |
potentialis1 | rkḥ.kꜣ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | rkḥ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | rkḥ.n |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
— | — |
perfective | rkḥ |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
rkḥ |
rkḥ, rkḥw5, rkḥy5 |
imperfective | rkḥ, rkḥy, rkḥw5 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 |
rkḥ, rkḥj6, rkḥy6 |
rkḥ, rkḥw5 |
prospective | rkḥ, rkḥtj7 |
— | rkḥtj4, rkḥt4 | |
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Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of rkḥ
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rkḥw | |||||
[19th–20th Dynasty] |
Descendants
edit- Coptic: ⲣⲱⲕϩ (rōkh)
References
edit- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 458.9–458.14