rkḥ

See also: rkḥ-ꜥꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈɾaːkaħ/ → /ˈɾaːkaħ/ → /ˈɾaːkəħ/ → /ˈɾoːkəħ/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾaːkaħ/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾaːkaħ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾaːkəħ/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈɾoːkəħ/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛkɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: rekeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to light (a fire) [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (intransitive) to light a fire [Greco-Roman Period]
3. (intransitive, of fire) to burn [Book of the Dead]
4. (transitive) to burn (something) [Late Period to Greco-Roman Period]
5. (transitive, of fire) to heat (something) [19th Dynasty medical texts]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural rkḥ rkḥw, rkḥ rkḥt rkḥ rkḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 rkḥ ḥr rkḥ m rkḥ r rkḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect rkḥ.n rkḥw, rkḥ consecutive rkḥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative rkḥt perfective3 rkḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 rkḥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective rkḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 rkḥ rkḥḥ potentialis1 rkḥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive rkḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect rkḥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective rkḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 rkḥ rkḥ, rkḥw5, rkḥy5 imperfective rkḥ, rkḥy, rkḥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 rkḥ, rkḥj6, rkḥy6 rkḥ, rkḥw5 prospective rkḥ, rkḥtj7 — rkḥtj4, rkḥt4 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 rkḥ  

rkḥw

[19th–20th Dynasty]

Descendants

• Coptic: ⲣⲱⲕϩ (rōkh)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 458.9–458.14