ḥtp

See also: Htp and HTP

Egyptian

FWOTD – 27 May 2014

Pronunciation

 
  • (verb participle): (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈħaːtip/ → /ˈħaːtip/ → /ˈħaːtəp/ → /ˈħoːtəp/

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) content or satisfied (+ ḥr or m or (rarely, Late Period) r or (rarely, Greco-Roman Period) n: with) [since the Pyramid Texts]
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.8–1.9:


      jr swrj.k ḥnꜥ tḫw šzp.k jw jb.f ḥtp.w
      If you drink with a drunkard, you should partake when his heart is satisfied.
  2. (transitive, rare) to be(come) content or satisifed with [New Kingdom]
  3. (intransitive) to be(come) propitious, gracious, favorable, not hostile (+ n: to)
  4. (intransitive) to be(come) peaceful
    1. (intransitive) to be(come) peaceable, pacified, propitiated, not hostile (+ n: to)
    2. (intransitive) to reconcile with each other, to come to terms, to make peace
    3. (intransitive, of a besieged city) to surrender (+ n: to)
    4. (intransitive, of natural phenomena) to be(come) peaceful, calm, not stormy or raging
    5. (intransitive, of years) to be(come) peaceful, not characterized by war
  5. (intransitive) to (come to) rest, to settle, to (stop and) rest (+ m: in, at (a place); ḥr: upon) [since the Middle Kingdom]
  6. (intransitive, with r) to come to, to get to (a place) [18th Dynasty and Theban royal tombs]
  7. (transitive) to assume, to take (a seat or place) [since the Middle Kingdom]
  8. (transitive) to settle at, in, or on; to rest at (a place) [since the Middle Kingdom]
  9. (intransitive, of celestial bodies) to set (+ m: on (the horizon), in (the west), etc.)
    Antonym: wbn
  10. (transitive, rare) to satisfy, to make content [since the Middle Kingdom]
  11. (transitive, rare) to reconcile (hostile parties) with each other [since the Middle Kingdom]

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥtp (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥtp, geminated stem: ḥtpp
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥtp
 ḥtpw, ḥtp
 ḥtpt
 ḥtp
 ḥtp
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥtp
 ḥr ḥtp
 m ḥtp
 r ḥtp
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ḥtp.n
 ḥtpw, ḥtp
 consecutive ḥtp.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ḥtpt
perfective3 ḥtp
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 ḥtp.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ḥtp
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ḥtp
 ḥtpp
 potentialis1 ḥtp.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ḥtp
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ḥtp.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ḥtp
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥtp
 ḥtp, ḥtpw5, ḥtpy5
imperfective ḥtp, ḥtpy, ḥtpw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥtp, ḥtpj6, ḥtpy6
 ḥtp, ḥtpw5
prospective ḥtp, ḥtptj7
 — ḥtptj4, ḥtpt4

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 ḥtp  




ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥpt
[since the Old Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom]
uncommon in hieratic especially in hieratic occasionally

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: ḥtp
  • → English: hotep

Noun

 m

  1. peace, lack of war or hostility
    • 12th Dynasty, Stela of Amenemhat, British Museum, Egyptian Antiquities, E567:






      ḏd.t(w) n.f jjw m ḥtp jn wrw nw ꜣbḏw
      May "welcome in peace" be said to him by the great of Abydos.
  2. contentment, satisfaction
  3. graciousness, favorableness, mercy [Middle and New Kingdoms]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  




ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtpw ḥtp
[Middle and New Kingdoms] [New Kingdom] [since the 18th Dynasty] [since the 18th Dynasty] [Late Period]
especially in the sense ‘graciousness’ in the sense ‘graciousness’

Derived terms

Noun

 m

  1. offering table, altar [since the Pyramid Texts]

Inflection

Declension of ḥtp (masculine)
singular ḥtp
dual ḥtpwj
plural ḥtpw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  




ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp
[New Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Late Period] [Late Period]

Noun

 m

  1. offering, sacrifice, especially of food [since the Pyramid Texts]
    • 12th Dynasty, Coffin of Nakht (PM 5999):[2]




      ḥtp ḏj nswt wsjr nb-ḏdw nṯr-ꜥꜣ nb-ꜣbḏw […]
      An offering given by the king and Osiris, the Lord of Djedu, the Elder God, the Lord of Abydos […]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  













ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtpw ḥtp ḥtp
[Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom] [since the Old Kingdom] [Pyramid Texts] [since the Pyramid Texts] [since the Pyramid Texts]
in compounds
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥtp  












ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥpt ḥtp ḥtp ḥtp ḥtpw
[since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [since the 19th Dynasty] [since the 19th Dynasty] [since the 19th Dynasty]
occasionally

Derived terms

Proper noun

 m

  1. a male given name, Hetep or Hotep

References

  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 36
  2. ^ The Global Egyptian Museum (entry in German)
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