spḥ

See also: SPH and spH

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛpɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: sepeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to lasso (animals or people)
2. (transitive, Late Egyptian, figuratively) to capture (someone) with one’s words

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural spḥ spḥw, spḥ spḥt spḥ spḥ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 spḥ ḥr spḥ m spḥ r spḥ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect spḥ.n spḥw, spḥ consecutive spḥ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative spḥt perfective3 spḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 spḥ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective spḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 spḥ spḥḥ potentialis1 spḥ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive spḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect spḥ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective spḥ active + .tj1, .tw2 spḥ spḥ, spḥw5, spḥy5 imperfective spḥ, spḥy, spḥw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 spḥ, spḥj6, spḥy6 spḥ, spḥw5 prospective spḥ, spḥtj7 — spḥtj4, spḥt4 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 spḥ  

spḥ

[18th Dynasty]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 105.6–105.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 223