wḥꜣ

See also: wḫꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛhɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: weha

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to separate by pulling away [since the Old Kingdom]
   1. (transitive) to pluck (fruit)
   2. (transitive) to uproot (papyrus, flax, etc.)
   3. (transitive) to quarry (stone)
2. (transitive, rare) to dig up (earth) [Greco-Roman Period]
3. (transitive, rare) to kill (evil ones) [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wḥꜣ	wḥꜣw, wḥꜣ	wḥꜣt	wḥꜣ	wḥꜣ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	wḥꜣ.n	wḥꜣw, wḥꜣ	consecutive	wḥꜣ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	wḥꜣt
perfective3	wḥꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	wḥꜣ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	wḥꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	wḥꜣ	wḥꜣꜣ	potentialis1	wḥꜣ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	wḥꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	wḥꜣ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	wḥꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2	wḥꜣ	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣw5, wḥꜣy5
imperfective	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣy, wḥꜣw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣj6, wḥꜣy6	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣw5
prospective	wḥꜣ, wḥꜣtj7	—	wḥꜣtj4, wḥꜣt4
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 wḥꜣ  

wḥꜣ

[Old Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 346.15–347.5