ꜣḫfḫf

Egyptian

Perhaps a reduplication of ꜣḫf (“burning appetite^?”). Compare also ḫfꜣj (“to illuminate”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑxɛfxɛf/
- Conventional anglicization: akhefkhef

5-lit.

Conjugation of ꜣḫfḫf (quinquiliteral / 5-lit. / 5rad.) — base stem: ꜣḫfḫf

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ꜣḫfḫf	ꜣḫfḫfw, ꜣḫfḫf	ꜣḫfḫft	ꜣḫfḫf	ꜣḫfḫf

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣḫfḫf.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣḫfḫf	ꜣḫfḫf	ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfw⁵, ꜣḫfḫfy⁵
imperfective	ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfy, ꜣḫfḫfw⁵	ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfj⁶, ꜣḫfḫfy⁶	ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfw⁵
prospective	ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫftj⁷	ꜣḫfḫfwtj^{1 4}, ꜣḫfḫftj⁴, ꜣḫfḫft⁴
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.

“ꜣḫfḫf (lemma ID 257)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 19.5
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 5