wtḫ

See also: wth and WTH

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛtɛx/
  • Conventional anglicization: wetekh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to flee

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wtḫ	wtḫw, wtḫ	wtḫt	wtḫ	wtḫ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	wtḫ.n	consecutive	wtḫ.jn
terminative	wtḫt
perfective3	wtḫ	obligative1	wtḫ.ḫr
imperfective	wtḫ
prospective3	wtḫ	potentialis1	wtḫ.kꜣ
subjunctive	wtḫ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	wtḫ.n	—	—
perfective	wtḫ	wtḫ	wtḫ, wtḫw5, wtḫy5
imperfective	wtḫ, wtḫy, wtḫw5	wtḫ, wtḫj6, wtḫy6	wtḫ, wtḫw5
prospective	wtḫ, wtḫtj7	wtḫtj4, wtḫt4
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 273.