spḥ

spḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛpɛħ/
  • Conventional anglicization: sepeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to lasso (animals or people)
2. (transitive, Late Egyptian, figuratively) to capture (someone) with one’s words

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
spḥ	spḥw, spḥ	spḥt	spḥ	spḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	spḥ.n	spḥw, spḥ	consecutive	spḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	spḥt
perfective3	spḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative	spḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	spḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	spḥ	spḥḥ	potentialis	spḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	spḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	spḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	spḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	spḥ	spḥ, spḥw5, spḥy5
imperfective	spḥ, spḥy, spḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	spḥ, spḥj6, spḥy6	spḥ, spḥw5
prospective	spḥ, spḥtj7	—	spḥtj4, spḥt4
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 spḥ  

spḥ

[18th Dynasty]

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 105.6–105.10
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 223