pꜣqj

Egyptian

Etymology

Compare with Akkadian 𒉺𒀀𒄣 (pa-a-qu /⁠pāqu, piāqu⁠/, “narrow”) and Arabic ف و ق (f w q, literally “the small notch of the clavicle, the top of the shoulders, the thin dimensions of the coronal plane looking down from above the torso”), verb forms VII and VIII showing its connection to shortness, to become thin, emaciated, to wear out, and to die of coughing or shortness of breath, gasping.

Pronunciation

(reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈpiʀqʼit/ → /ˈpiʀqʼiʔ/ → /ˈpiːqʼa/ → /ˈpiːqʼə/

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɑki/
- Conventional anglicization: paqi

Verb

4ae inf.

(intransitive) to be(come) thin

Inflection

Conjugation of pꜣqj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: pꜣq

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
pꜣqt, pꜣqj	pꜣqw, pꜣqyw, pꜣq	pꜣqt, pꜣqwt, pꜣqyt	pꜣq	pꜣq, pꜣqy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
pꜣq⁸	ḥr pꜣqt, ḥr pꜣqj	m pꜣqt, ḥr pꜣqj	r pꜣqt, ḥr pꜣqj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
aspect / mood	active	aspect / mood	active
perfect	pꜣq.n	consecutive	pꜣq.jn
terminative	pꜣqt	consecutive	pꜣq.jn
perfective³	pꜣq	obligative¹	pꜣq.ḫr
imperfective	pꜣq, pꜣqy	obligative¹	pꜣq.ḫr
prospective³	pꜣqw, pꜣq, pꜣqy	potentialis¹	pꜣq.kꜣ
subjunctive	pꜣq, pꜣqy	potentialis¹	pꜣq.kꜣ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	pꜣq.n	—	—
perfective	pꜣqw¹, pꜣqy, pꜣq	pꜣq	pꜣqy, pꜣq
imperfective	pꜣq, pꜣqy, pꜣqw⁵	pꜣq, pꜣqj⁶, pꜣqy⁶	pꜣq, pꜣqw⁵
prospective	pꜣqw¹, pꜣqy, pꜣq, pꜣqtj⁷	pꜣqwtj^{1 4}, pꜣqtj⁴, pꜣqt⁴
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.

Derived terms

pꜣq
pꜣqt

References

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 499.6–499.7

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