zḫj

See also: zẖj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛxi/
  • Conventional anglicization: zekhi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (transitive) to hit, to strike [since the Pyramid Texts]

Inflection

Conjugation of zḫj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: zḫ, geminated stem: zḫḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
zḫt, zḫj	zḫw, zḫ	zḫt, zḫwt, zḫyt	zḫ	zḫ, zḫy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
zḫ8, zḫḫ8	ḥr zḫt, ḥr zḫj	m zḫt, m zḫj	r zḫt, r zḫj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	zḫ.n	zḫw, zḫ, zḫy	consecutive	zḫ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	zḫt, zḫyt
perfective3	zḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	zḫ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	zḫ, zḫy	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	zḫw, zḫ, zḫy	zḫw, zḫ, zḫy	potentialis1	zḫ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	zḫ, zḫy	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	zḫ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	zḫw1, zḫy, zḫ	active + .tj1, .tw2	zḫ	zḫy, zḫ
imperfective	zḫḫ, zḫḫy, zḫḫw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	zḫḫ, zḫḫj6, zḫḫy6	zḫḫ, zḫḫw5
prospective	zḫw1, zḫy, zḫ, zḫtj7	—	zḫwtj1 4, zḫtj4, zḫt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zḫj  

sḫj

[since the Middle Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 466.13–467.13
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 228