sꜥḥ

Egyptian

3-lit.

(transitive) to ennoble, to distinguish
(transitive) to wrap (the image of a god) in bandages
(transitive) to mummify
(intransitive, usually as part of a causative after rḏj) to be(come) distinguished or noble

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sꜥḥ	sꜥḥw, sꜥḥ	sꜥḥt	sꜥḥ	sꜥḥ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sꜥḥ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sꜥḥ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sꜥḥ	sꜥḥ, sꜥḥw⁵, sꜥḥy⁵
imperfective	sꜥḥ, sꜥḥy, sꜥḥw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sꜥḥ, sꜥḥj⁶, sꜥḥy⁶	sꜥḥ, sꜥḥw⁵
prospective	sꜥḥ, sꜥḥtj⁷	—	sꜥḥtj⁴, sꜥḥt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sꜥḥ

sꜥḥ

m

Declension of sꜥḥ (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sꜥḥ

sꜥḥ

m

dignitary, privileged or distinguished person
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 7–8:
  
  sꜥḥ ꜣḫ ḫnt sꜥḥw wꜣḥ jꜣwt smn ḥqꜣt sḫm nfr n(j) psḏt jmꜣ ḥr mrr mꜣ n.f rdj snḏ.f m tꜣw nb(w) n mr(w)t dm.sn rn.f r ḥꜣt […]
  Effective dignitary, foremost of dignitaries, enduring of office, established of reign, the fair power of the Ennead, gracious of face, the sight of whom is beloved, the awe of whom is set in all lands in order that they pronounce his name first, […]

Declension of sꜥḥ (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sꜥḥ

sꜥḥ

m

Declension of sꜥḥ (masculine)

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 49.3–50.2, 50.8–52.15
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 214–215
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 362.

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