ꜣwḥ

See also: ꜣwḫ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑuːh/
  • Conventional anglicization: auh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Middle Kingdom]
   1. (intransitive) to drive out (+ r: from)
   2. (intransitive) to do violence (+ r: to)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ꜣwḥ ꜣwḥw, ꜣwḥ ꜣwḥt ꜣwḥ ꜣwḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ꜣwḥ ḥr ꜣwḥ m ꜣwḥ r ꜣwḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ꜣwḥ.n consecutive ꜣwḥ.jn terminative ꜣwḥt perfective3 ꜣwḥ obligative1 ꜣwḥ.ḫr imperfective ꜣwḥ prospective3 ꜣwḥ potentialis1 ꜣwḥ.kꜣ subjunctive ꜣwḥ verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ꜣwḥ.n — — perfective ꜣwḥ ꜣwḥ ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥw5, ꜣwḥy5 imperfective ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥy, ꜣwḥw5 ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥj6, ꜣwḥy6 ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥw5 prospective ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥtj7 ꜣwḥtj4, ꜣwḥt4 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.

Related terms

• (possibly) jwḥ

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 5.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2