ꜣwḥ

ꜣwḥ

See also: ꜣwḫ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑuːħ/
  • Conventional anglicization: auh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: [Middle Kingdom]
   1. (intransitive) to drive out (+ r: from)
   2. (intransitive) to do violence (+ r: to)

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜣwḥ	ꜣwḥw, ꜣwḥ	ꜣwḥt	ꜣwḥ	ꜣwḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜣwḥ.n	consecutive	ꜣwḥ.jn
terminative	ꜣwḥt
perfective3	ꜣwḥ	obligative1	ꜣwḥ.ḫr
imperfective	ꜣwḥ
prospective3	ꜣwḥ	potentialis1	ꜣwḥ.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜣwḥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜣwḥ.n	—	—
perfective	ꜣwḥ	ꜣwḥ	ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥw5, ꜣwḥy5
imperfective	ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥy, ꜣwḥw5	ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥj6, ꜣwḥy6	ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥw5
prospective	ꜣwḥ, ꜣwḥtj7	ꜣwḥtj4, ꜣwḥt4
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.

Related terms

• (possibly) jwḥ

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 5.18
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 2