ꜣq

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb


 2-lit. or 3ae inf.

  1. (intransitive, of people, things, and lands) to perish, to die, to fall to ruin [since the Middle Kingdom]
  2. (intransitive, of strength, fear, things, names, etc.) to fade away, to wane, to dwindle
  3. (intransitive, of mass) to be lost in the process of cooking
  4. (intransitive, of the heart/mind) to become forgetful
  5. (intransitive, of the arm) to become lame

Inflection

Hoch instead considers this a third weak verb:

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

Compounded with ḏjt, infinitive of rḏj:

  • Demotic: djt ꜣq (to cause to perish)
    • Coptic: ⲧⲁⲕⲟ (tako, to destroy)

References

  • ꜣq (lemma ID 290)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 21.11–21.20
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 6
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 184
  • Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 242
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