ḥww

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /huːʔuː/
  • Conventional anglicization: huu

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to proclaim, to utter (+ n: to) [Pyramid Texts and Book of the Dead]

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥww (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḥw, geminated stem: ḥww

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḥwt, ḥwj ḥww, ḥw ḥwt, ḥwwt, ḥwyt ḥw ḥw, ḥwy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḥw8, ḥww8 ḥr ḥwt, ḥr ḥwj m ḥwt, m ḥwj r ḥwt, r ḥwj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḥw.n ḥww, ḥw, ḥwy consecutive ḥw.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḥwt, ḥwyt perfective3 ḥw active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḥw.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḥw, ḥwy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḥww, ḥw, ḥwy ḥww, ḥw, ḥwy potentialis1 ḥw.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḥw, ḥwy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḥw.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḥww1, ḥwy, ḥw active + .tj1, .tw2 ḥw ḥwy, ḥw imperfective ḥww, ḥwwy, ḥwww5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ḥww, ḥwwj6, ḥwwy6 ḥww, ḥwww5 prospective ḥww1, ḥwy, ḥw, ḥwtj7 — ḥwwtj1 4, ḥwtj4, ḥwt4 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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥww  

ḥww	ḥwj

Related terms

• ḥw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 44.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 164