wꜥf

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑːf/
  • Conventional anglicization: waf

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to deflect

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wꜥf wꜥfw, wꜥf wꜥft wꜥf wꜥf ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wꜥf ḥr wꜥf m wꜥf r wꜥf suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect wꜥf.n wꜥfw, wꜥf consecutive wꜥf.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative wꜥft perfective3 wꜥf active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 wꜥf.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective wꜥf active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 wꜥf wꜥff potentialis1 wꜥf.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive wꜥf active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect wꜥf.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective wꜥf active + .tj1, .tw2 wꜥf wꜥf, wꜥfw5, wꜥfy5 imperfective wꜥf, wꜥfy, wꜥfw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 wꜥf, wꜥfj6, wꜥfy6 wꜥf, wꜥfw5 prospective wꜥf, wꜥftj7 — wꜥftj4, wꜥft4 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.

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 335.