pẖr

See also: phr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛçɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: pekher

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive or intransitive) to go around, to circle

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural pẖr pẖrw, pẖr pẖrt pẖr pẖr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 pẖr ḥr pẖr m pẖr r pẖr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect pẖr.n pẖrw, pẖr consecutive pẖr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative pẖrt perfective3 pẖr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 pẖr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective pẖr active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 pẖr pẖrr potentialis1 pẖr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive pẖr active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect pẖr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective pẖr active + .tj1, .tw2 pẖr pẖr, pẖrw5, pẖry5 imperfective pẖr, pẖry, pẖrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 pẖr, pẖrj6, pẖry6 pẖr, pẖrw5 prospective pẖr, pẖrtj7 — pẖrtj4, pẖrt4 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.

Derived terms

• pẖr-wr
• ṯz-pẖr

Descendants

• Old Coptic: ⲡϧⲣⲏⲓ⸗ (pxrēi⸗)

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 75.
• Love, Edward O.D. (2019) Innovative Scripts and Spellings in Roman Egypt: Investigations Into Script Conventions, Domains, Shift, and Obsolescence as Evidenced by Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Old Coptic Manuscripts

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