sḥꜣbj

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ḥꜣbj (“to celebrate a festival”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛhɑbi/
  • Conventional anglicization: sehabi

Verb

 caus. 4ae inf.

1. (transitive) to make festive

Inflection

Conjugation of sḥꜣbj (causative fourth weak / caus. 4ae inf. / caus. IV. inf.) — base stem: sḥꜣb

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sḥꜣb	sḥꜣbw, sḥꜣbyw, sḥꜣb	sḥꜣbt, sḥꜣbwt, sḥꜣbyt	sḥꜣb	sḥꜣb, sḥꜣby

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sḥꜣb.n	sḥꜣbw, sḥꜣb, sḥꜣby	consecutive	sḥꜣb.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	sḥꜣbt
perfective3	sḥꜣb	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	sḥꜣb.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	sḥꜣb, sḥꜣby	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	sḥꜣbw, sḥꜣb, sḥꜣby	sḥꜣbw, sḥꜣb, sḥꜣby	potentialis1	sḥꜣb.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	sḥꜣb, sḥꜣby	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sḥꜣb.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	sḥꜣbw1, sḥꜣby, sḥꜣb	active + .tj1, .tw2	sḥꜣb	sḥꜣby, sḥꜣb
imperfective	sḥꜣb, sḥꜣby, sḥꜣbw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	sḥꜣb, sḥꜣbj6, sḥꜣby6	sḥꜣb, sḥꜣbw5
prospective	sḥꜣbw1, sḥꜣby, sḥꜣb, sḥꜣbtj7	—	sḥꜣbwtj1 4, sḥꜣbtj4, sḥꜣbt4
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 343.