rkḥ

rkḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛkɛħ/
  • Conventional anglicization: rekeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to light (a fire) [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (intransitive) to light a fire [Greco-Roman Period]
3. (intransitive, of fire) to burn [Book of the Dead]
4. (transitive) to burn (something) [Late Period to Greco-Roman Period]
5. (transitive, of fire) to heat (something) [19th Dynasty medical texts]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
rkḥ	rkḥw, rkḥ	rkḥt	rkḥ	rkḥ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
rkḥ	ḥr rkḥ	m rkḥ	r rkḥ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	rkḥ.n	rkḥw, rkḥ	consecutive	rkḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	rkḥt
perfective3	rkḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative	rkḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	rkḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	rkḥ	rkḥḥ	potentialis	rkḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	rkḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	rkḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	rkḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	rkḥ	rkḥ, rkḥw5, rkḥy5
imperfective	rkḥ, rkḥy, rkḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	rkḥ, rkḥj6, rkḥy6	rkḥ, rkḥw5
prospective	rkḥ, rkḥtj7	—	rkḥtj4, rkḥt4
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, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rkḥ  

rkḥw

[19th–20th Dynasty]

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 458.9–458.14