sfkk

Egyptian

Etymology

From an (unattested) reduplication of fk (“become desolate”) prefixed with s- (causative prefix).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛfɛkɛk/
  • Conventional anglicization: sefekek

Verb

 caus. 2ae gem.

1. (transitive) to devastate

Inflection

Conjugation of sfkk (causative second geminate / caus. 2ae gem. / caus. II. gem.) — base stem: sfk, geminated stem: sfkk

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural sfkk sfkk sfkkt sfkk sfkk ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 sfkk ḥr sfkk m sfkk r sfkk suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect sfkk.n sfkkw, sfkk consecutive sfkk.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative sfkkt perfective3 sfkk active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 sfkk.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective sfkk active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 sfkkw, sfkk, sfkky sfkkw, sfkk, sfkky potentialis1 sfkk.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive sfkk active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect sfkk.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective sfkk active + .tj1, .tw2 — — imperfective sfkk, sfkky, sfkkw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 sfkk, sfkkj6, sfkky6 sfkk, sfkkw5 prospective sfkk, sfkktj7 — sfkkwtj1 4, sfkktj4, sfkkt4 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.

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 158.