qḥqḥ

Egyptian

Etymology

Reduplication of qḥ (“to break stones”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɛhkɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: qehqeh

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (transitive) to hammer, to beat (metal: copper, gold, or silver) into a sheet [since the Middle Kingdom]

   ― ḥḏ m qḥqḥ ― beaten silver

2. (transitive) to hammer at, to carve (a sculpture)

Inflection

Conjugation of qḥqḥ (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: qḥqḥ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural qḥqḥ qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ qḥqḥt qḥqḥ qḥqḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 qḥqḥ ḥr qḥqḥ m qḥqḥ r qḥqḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect qḥqḥ.n qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ consecutive qḥqḥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative qḥqḥt perfective3 qḥqḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 qḥqḥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective qḥqḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ potentialis1 qḥqḥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive qḥqḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect qḥqḥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective qḥqḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 qḥqḥ qḥqḥ, qḥqḥw5, qḥqḥy5 imperfective qḥqḥ, qḥqḥy, qḥqḥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 qḥqḥ, qḥqḥj6, qḥqḥy6 qḥqḥ, qḥqḥw5 prospective qḥqḥ, qḥqḥtj7 — qḥqḥwtj1 4, qḥqḥtj4, qḥqḥt4 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

• qḥqḥw

Descendants

• Demotic: qḥqḥ
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲁϩⲕϩ̄ (kahkh̄)

References

• “qḥqḥ (lemma ID 162150)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 67.6–67.8