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
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. 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.