ḫꜣḫ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɑx/
  • Conventional anglicization: khakh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) fast
2. (intransitive) to hurry, to hasten

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫꜣḫ ḫꜣḫw, ḫꜣḫ ḫꜣḫt ḫꜣḫ ḫꜣḫ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫꜣḫ ḥr ḫꜣḫ m ḫꜣḫ r ḫꜣḫ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḫꜣḫ.n consecutive ḫꜣḫ.jn terminative ḫꜣḫt perfective3 ḫꜣḫ obligative1 ḫꜣḫ.ḫr imperfective ḫꜣḫ prospective3 ḫꜣḫ potentialis1 ḫꜣḫ.kꜣ subjunctive ḫꜣḫ verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḫꜣḫ.n — — perfective ḫꜣḫ ḫꜣḫ ḫꜣḫ, ḫꜣḫw5, ḫꜣḫy5 imperfective ḫꜣḫ, ḫꜣḫy, ḫꜣḫw5 ḫꜣḫ, ḫꜣḫj6, ḫꜣḫy6 ḫꜣḫ, ḫꜣḫw5 prospective ḫꜣḫ, ḫꜣḫtj7 ḫꜣḫtj4, ḫꜣḫt4 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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫꜣḫ  

ḫꜣḫ

[Old Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 232.18–233.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 185