ꜣḫfḫf

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 5-lit.

1. (intransitive, of the eyes) to be fiery, to blaze [Coffin Texts]

Inflection

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 suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ꜣḫfḫf.n consecutive ꜣḫfḫf.jn terminative ꜣḫfḫft perfective3 ꜣḫfḫf obligative1 ꜣḫfḫf.ḫr imperfective ꜣḫfḫf prospective3 ꜣḫfḫfw, ꜣḫfḫf potentialis1 ꜣḫfḫf.kꜣ subjunctive ꜣḫfḫf verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ꜣḫfḫf.n — — perfective ꜣḫfḫf ꜣḫfḫf ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfw5, ꜣḫfḫfy5 imperfective ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfy, ꜣḫfḫfw5 ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfj6, ꜣḫfḫfy6 ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫfw5 prospective ꜣḫfḫf, ꜣḫfḫftj7 ꜣḫfḫfwtj1 4, ꜣḫfḫftj4, ꜣḫfḫft4 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.

References

• “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