bꜥḥj

Egyptian

FWOTD – 25 October 2020

4ae inf.

(intransitive, of liquids and rays of light) to flow
(transitive, intransitive) to inundate or be inundated, to flood
(transitive, intransitive) to flood with light
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 12–13:
  
  ḫꜥ ḥr nst nt (j)t.f mj rꜥ wbn.f m ꜣḫt rdj.f šsp n ḥr(j) kkw sḥḏ.n.f šw m šwtj.fj bꜥḥ.n.f tꜣwj mj jṯn m tp-dwꜣyt
  One shining forth on the throne of his father like Ra when he rises in the Akhet, he gave light to what was covered by darkness, having brightened the air with his two plumes, having flooded the Two Lands (Egypt) like the sun disk at the break of dawn.
(intransitive, of food) to be present in abundance, to overflow
(intransitive, of people, places, containers, etc.) to have abundance

Conjugation of bꜥḥj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: bꜥḥ, geminated stem: bꜥḥḥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
bꜥḥ	bꜥḥw, bꜥḥyw, bꜥḥ	bꜥḥt, bꜥḥwt, bꜥḥyt	bꜥḥ	bꜥḥ, bꜥḥy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
bꜥḥ⁸	ḥr bꜥḥ	m bꜥḥ	r bꜥḥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	bꜥḥ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	bꜥḥw¹, bꜥḥy, bꜥḥ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	bꜥḥ	bꜥḥy, bꜥḥ
imperfective	bꜥḥḥ, bꜥḥḥy, bꜥḥḥw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	bꜥḥḥ, bꜥḥḥj⁶, bꜥḥḥy⁶	bꜥḥḥ, bꜥḥḥw⁵
prospective	bꜥḥw¹, bꜥḥy, bꜥḥ, bꜥḥtj⁷	—	bꜥḥwtj^{1 4}, bꜥḥtj⁴, bꜥḥt⁴
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bꜥḥj

bꜥḥj

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 448.11–449.25
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 81

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