jqḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ikɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: iqeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to enter (a place) [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]
2. (transitive) to come across to meet (someone)
3. (transitive, of rays of the sun, etc.) to illuminate, to shine on [Greco-Roman Period]
4. (intransitive, with r or m) to go to (a place)
5. (intransitive, with r or m, of floodwater and rays of the sun) to reach, to touch (a place)
6. (intransitive, with ḫr, of a fragrance) to reach (someone)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural jqḥ jqḥw, jqḥ jqḥt jqḥ jqḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 jqḥ ḥr jqḥ m jqḥ r jqḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect jqḥ.n jqḥw, jqḥ consecutive jqḥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative jqḥt perfective3 jqḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 jqḥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective jqḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 jqḥ jqḥḥ potentialis1 jqḥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive jqḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect jqḥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective jqḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 jqḥ jqḥ, jqḥw5, jqḥy5 imperfective jqḥ, jqḥy, jqḥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 jqḥ, jqḥj6, jqḥy6 jqḥ, jqḥw5 prospective jqḥ, jqḥtj7 — jqḥtj4, jqḥt4 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 jqḥ  

jqḥw	jqḥ	jqḥ	jqḥw	jqḥ
		[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “jqḥ (lemma ID 32330)”, 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, pages 138.8-16