qꜣꜥ

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare qjs (“to vomit”), qꜣ, qꜣꜣ (“to be putrid; to vomit”), Ge'ez ቄአ (ḳeʾä), present ይቂእ (yəḳiʾ, “to vomit”), Tigre ቀኣ (ḳäʾa, “to vomit”), Arabic قَاءَ (qāʔa), present يَقِيءُ (yaqīʔu, “to vomit”), Hebrew קָא (qāʾ), present יָקִיא (yāqīʾ, “to vomit”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /kɑʔɑː/
  • Conventional anglicization: qaa

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to vomit, to spew out

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural qꜣꜥ qꜣꜥw, qꜣꜥ qꜣꜥt qꜣꜥ qꜣꜥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 qꜣꜥ ḥr qꜣꜥ m qꜣꜥ r qꜣꜥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect qꜣꜥ.n qꜣꜥw, qꜣꜥ consecutive qꜣꜥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative qꜣꜥt perfective3 qꜣꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 qꜣꜥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective qꜣꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 qꜣꜥ qꜣꜥꜥ potentialis1 qꜣꜥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive qꜣꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect qꜣꜥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective qꜣꜥ active + .tj1, .tw2 qꜣꜥ qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥw5, qꜣꜥy5 imperfective qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥy, qꜣꜥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥj6, qꜣꜥy6 qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥw5 prospective qꜣꜥ, qꜣꜥtj7 — qꜣꜥtj4, qꜣꜥt4 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 qꜣꜥ  

qꜥ

[since the New Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 7.5–7.16
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 456