tḫj

See also: thj

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːχit/ → /ˈtiːχiʔ/ → /ˈtiːχa/ → /ˈtiːχə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːχit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːχiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːχa/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːχə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛxi/
  • Conventional anglicization: tekhi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to get drunk [since the Old Kingdom]

Inflection

Conjugation of tḫj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: tḫ, geminated stem: tḫḫ

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural tḫt, tḫj tḫw, tḫ tḫt, tḫwt, tḫyt tḫ tḫ, tḫy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 tḫ8, tḫḫ8 ḥr tḫt, ḥr tḫj m tḫt, m tḫj r tḫt, r tḫj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect tḫ.n consecutive tḫ.jn terminative tḫt, tḫyt perfective3 tḫ obligative1 tḫ.ḫr imperfective tḫ, tḫy prospective3 tḫw, tḫ, tḫy potentialis1 tḫ.kꜣ subjunctive tḫ, tḫy verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect tḫ.n — — perfective tḫw1, tḫy, tḫ tḫ tḫy, tḫ imperfective tḫḫ, tḫḫy, tḫḫw5 tḫḫ, tḫḫj6, tḫḫy6 tḫḫ, tḫḫw5 prospective tḫw1, tḫy, tḫ, tḫtj7 tḫwtj1 4, tḫtj4, tḫt4 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. 8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Derived terms

• tḫ
• tḫw
• tḫt

Descendants

• Demotic: tẖy
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ϯⳉⲉ (tixe)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲑⲓϧⲓ (thixi)
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ϯϩⲓ (tihi)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ϯϩⲉ (tihe)

Etymology 2

A nominalized nisba adjective, formed from tḫ (“plumb bob”) +‎ -j (“nisba ending”), thus literally ‘(the one) of the plumb bob’, an epithet of Thoth.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛxi/
  • Conventional anglicization: tekhi

Proper noun

 m

1. the month of Thoth

Coordinate terms

Egyptian calendar months (Middle Kingdom/Memphite)edit

• tḫj
• mnḫt
• ẖnt-ḥwt-ḥr
• nḥb-kꜣw
• šf-bdt
• rkḥ-ꜥꜣ
• rkḥ-nḏs
• rnn-wtt
• ḫnsw
• ḫnt-ẖty-prtj
• jpt-ḥmt
• wp-rnpt

References

• “tḫi̯ (lemma ID 173110)” and “Tḫj (lemma ID 853217)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 323.13–324.17, 325.18–325.20
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108.