sꜣḥ
See also: sꜣḫ
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɑħ/
- Conventional anglicization: sah
Noun
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m
- toe
Inflection
Declension of sꜣḥ (masculine)
singular | sꜣḥ |
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dual | sꜣḥwj |
plural | sꜣḥw |
Verb
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3-lit.
- (transitive) to set foot on, to arrive at
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 101–103:
- ḏꜥ pr(.w) jw.n m wꜣḏ-wr tp-ꜥ sꜣḥ.n tꜣ
- A stormwind emerged while we were at sea, before we could set foot on land.
Inflection
Conjugation of sꜣḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sꜣḥ, geminated stem: sꜣḥḥ
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
sꜣḥ | sꜣḥw, sꜣḥ | sꜣḥt | sꜣḥ | sꜣḥ |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
sꜣḥ | ḥr sꜣḥ | m sꜣḥ | r sꜣḥ |
suffix conjugation | |||||
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aspect / mood | active | passive | contingent | ||
aspect / mood | active | passive | |||
perfect | sꜣḥ.n | sꜣḥw, sꜣḥ | consecutive | sꜣḥ.jn | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
terminative | sꜣḥt | ||||
perfective3 | sꜣḥ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | obligative1 | sꜣḥ.ḫr | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
imperfective | sꜣḥ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||
prospective3 | sꜣḥ | sꜣḥḥ | potentialis1 | sꜣḥ.kꜣ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
active + .tj1, .tw2 | |||||
subjunctive | sꜣḥ | active + .tj1, .tw2 |
verbal adjectives | ||||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | ||
active | passive | active | passive | |
perfect | sꜣḥ.n | active + .tj1, .tw2 | — | — |
perfective | sꜣḥ | active + .tj1, .tw2 | sꜣḥ | sꜣḥ, sꜣḥw5, sꜣḥy5 |
imperfective | sꜣḥ, sꜣḥy, sꜣḥw5 | active + .tj1, .tw2 | sꜣḥ, sꜣḥj6, sꜣḥy6 | sꜣḥ, sꜣḥw5 |
prospective | sꜣḥ, sꜣḥtj7 | — | sꜣḥtj4, sꜣḥt4 | |
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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sꜣḥ
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sꜣḥ |
Proper noun
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m
- (astronomy) Orion (constellation)
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 36.
- Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 98