snwḫ

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ nwḫ (“to be scorched”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛnuːx/
  • Conventional anglicization: senukh

Verb

 caus. 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to boil

Inflection

Conjugation of snwḫ (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: snwḫ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural snwḫ snwḫw, snwḫ snwḫt snwḫ snwḫ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 snwḫ ḥr snwḫ m snwḫ r snwḫ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect snwḫ.n snwḫw, snwḫ consecutive snwḫ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative snwḫt perfective3 snwḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 snwḫ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective snwḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 snwḫw, snwḫ, snwḫy snwḫw, snwḫ, snwḫy potentialis1 snwḫ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive snwḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect snwḫ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective snwḫ active + .tj1, .tw2 snwḫ snwḫ, snwḫw5, snwḫy5 imperfective snwḫ, snwḫy, snwḫw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 snwḫ, snwḫj6, snwḫy6 snwḫ, snwḫw5 prospective snwḫ, snwḫtj7 — snwḫwtj1 4, snwḫtj4, snwḫt4 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.

Synonyms

• ꜣfr

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 218.