ḥḏj

See also: ḫdj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛd͡ʒi/
  • Conventional anglicization: hedji

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to smash

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥḏj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḥḏ, geminated stem: ḥḏḏ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḥḏt, ḥḏj ḥḏw, ḥḏ ḥḏt, ḥḏwt, ḥḏyt ḥḏ ḥḏ, ḥḏy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḥḏ8, ḥḏḏ8 ḥr ḥḏt, ḥr ḥḏj m ḥḏt, m ḥḏj r ḥḏt, r ḥḏj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḥḏ.n ḥḏw, ḥḏ, ḥḏy consecutive ḥḏ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḥḏt, ḥḏyt perfective3 ḥḏ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḥḏ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḥḏ, ḥḏy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḥḏw, ḥḏ, ḥḏy ḥḏw, ḥḏ, ḥḏy potentialis1 ḥḏ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḥḏ, ḥḏy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḥḏ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḥḏw1, ḥḏy, ḥḏ active + .tj1, .tw2 ḥḏ ḥḏy, ḥḏ imperfective ḥḏḏ, ḥḏḏy, ḥḏḏw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ḥḏḏ, ḥḏḏj6, ḥḏḏy6 ḥḏḏ, ḥḏḏw5 prospective ḥḏw1, ḥḏy, ḥḏ, ḥḏtj7 — ḥḏwtj1 4, ḥḏtj4, ḥḏt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 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. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Related terms

• ḥḏ (“mace”)

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 185.