Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (verb): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ħaˈqʼaɾ/ → /ħaˈqʼaʔ/ → /ħəˈqʼaʔ/ → /ħəˈqʼaʔ/
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) hungry
- c. 1944 BCE, (year 17 of the reign of Senusret I), Stela of Mentuwoser (MMA 12.184), lines 11–12:
- nj sḏr z ḥqr.w r dmj.j
- No one went to bed hungry in my district.
Inflection
Conjugation of ḥqr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥqr, geminated stem: ḥqrr
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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ḥqr
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ḥqrw, ḥqr
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ḥqrt
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ḥqr
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ḥqr
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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ḥqr
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ḥr ḥqr
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m ḥqr
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r ḥqr
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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| perfect
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ḥqr.n
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consecutive
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ḥqr.jn
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| terminative
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ḥqrt
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| perfective3
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ḥqr
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obligative1
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ḥqr.ḫr
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| imperfective
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ḥqr
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| prospective3
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ḥqr
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potentialis1
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ḥqr.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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ḥqr
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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ḥqr.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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ḥqr
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ḥqr
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ḥqr, ḥqrw5, ḥqry5
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| imperfective
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ḥqr, ḥqry, ḥqrw5
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ḥqr, ḥqrj6, ḥqry6
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ḥqr, ḥqrw5
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| prospective
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ḥqr, ḥqrtj7
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ḥqrtj4, ḥqrt4
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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.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥqr
Derived terms
Descendants
- Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ (hko) (Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan, Bohairic)
Noun
m
- hunger
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥqr
Descendants
- Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ (hko) (Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan, Bohairic)
Noun
m
- hungry man
Inflection
Declension of ḥqr (masculine)
| singular
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ḥqr
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| dual
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ḥqrwj
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| plural
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ḥqrw
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Descendants
- Coptic: ϩⲏⲕⲉ (hēke) (Sahidic, Akhmimic, Lycopolitan)
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 219, 235, 254.
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, § 23, page 31
- ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 248