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
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 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