sꜣḥ

See also: sꜣḫ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. toe

Inflection
Declension of sꜣḥ (masculine)
singular sꜣḥ
dual sꜣḥwj
plural sꜣḥw

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (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.
    • c. 1859 BCE – 1800 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B2 (pAmherst 2 and pBerlin 3025) lines 101–103:









      jr sqdd ẖr.f nj sꜣḥ.n.f tꜣ nj mjn.n dpwt.f r dmj.s
      As for him who sails with it, he cannot set foot on land, and his boat cannot moor at its harbor.

Inflection
Conjugation of sꜣḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: sꜣḥ, geminated stem: sꜣḥḥ
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
sꜣḥ
 sꜣḥw, sꜣḥ
 sꜣḥt
 sꜣḥ
 sꜣḥ
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
sꜣḥ
 ḥr sꜣḥ
 m sꜣḥ
 r sꜣḥ
suffix conjugation
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
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
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sꜣḥ  
sꜣḥ

Derived terms

Proper noun

 m

  1. (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
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