srwḫ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛruːx/
  • Conventional anglicization: serukh

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (transitive, medicine) to treat, to foster

Inflection

Conjugation of srwḫ (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: srwḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
srwḫ	srwḫw, srwḫ	srwḫt	srwḫ	srwḫ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	srwḫ.n	srwḫw, srwḫ	consecutive	srwḫ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	srwḫt
perfective3	srwḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	srwḫ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	srwḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	srwḫw, srwḫ	srwḫw, srwḫ	potentialis1	srwḫ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	srwḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	srwḫ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	srwḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	srwḫ	srwḫ, srwḫw5, srwḫy5
imperfective	srwḫ, srwḫy, srwḫw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	srwḫ, srwḫj6, srwḫy6	srwḫ, srwḫw5
prospective	srwḫ, srwḫtj7	—	srwḫwtj1 4, srwḫtj4, srwḫt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of srwḫ  

srwḫ

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 169, 243.