wḥꜣ

See also: wḫꜣ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛhɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: weha

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to separate by pulling away [since the Old Kingdom]
   1. (transitive) to pluck (fruit)
   2. (transitive) to uproot (papyrus, flax, etc.)
   3. (transitive) to quarry (stone)
2. (transitive, rare) to dig up (earth) [Greco-Roman Period]
3. (transitive, rare) to kill (evil ones) [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wḥꜣ wḥꜣw, wḥꜣ wḥꜣt wḥꜣ wḥꜣ ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wḥꜣ ḥr wḥꜣ m wḥꜣ r wḥꜣ suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect wḥꜣ.n wḥꜣw, wḥꜣ consecutive wḥꜣ.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative wḥꜣt perfective3 wḥꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 wḥꜣ.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective wḥꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 wḥꜣ wḥꜣꜣ potentialis1 wḥꜣ.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive wḥꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect wḥꜣ.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective wḥꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 wḥꜣ wḥꜣ, wḥꜣw5, wḥꜣy5 imperfective wḥꜣ, wḥꜣy, wḥꜣw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 wḥꜣ, wḥꜣj6, wḥꜣy6 wḥꜣ, wḥꜣw5 prospective wḥꜣ, wḥꜣtj7 — wḥꜣtj4, wḥꜣt4 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 wḥꜣ  

wḥꜣ

[Old Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 346.15–347.5