pzḥ

See also: pzh and pzḫ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːzaħ/ → /ˈpaːsaħ/ → /ˈpaːsəħ/ → /ˈpoːsəħ/, /ˈpoːħəs/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːzaħ/ (infinitive)
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːsaħ/ (infinitive)
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːsəħ/ (infinitive)
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) /ˈpoːsəħ/ (infinitive), /ˈpoːħəs/ (infinitive, with metathesis)

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛzɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: pezeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to bite
2. (transitive, of insects and scorpions) to sting

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
pzḥ	pzḥw, pzḥ	pzḥt	pzḥ	pzḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	pzḥ.n	pzḥw, pzḥ	consecutive	pzḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	pzḥt
perfective3	pzḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	pzḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	pzḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	pzḥ	pzḥḥ	potentialis1	pzḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	pzḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	pzḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	pzḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	pzḥ	pzḥ, pzḥw5, pzḥy5
imperfective	pzḥ, pzḥy, pzḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	pzḥ, pzḥj6, pzḥy6	pzḥ, pzḥw5
prospective	pzḥ, pzḥtj7	—	pzḥtj4, pzḥt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pzḥ  

pḥs

later with metathesis

Descendants

• Demotic: phs, pḥs
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲡⲱϩⲥ (pōhs), ⲡⲱⲥϩ (pōsh)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲡⲱϩⲥ (pōhs)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲡⲉϩⲥ^† (pehs^†)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 550.1–550.10