ḥzj

See also: ẖzj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3ae inf.

  1. (transitive) to praise, to bless, to honor (someone, someone’s speech, someone’s conduct, etc.) (+ ḥr: for)
  2. (transitive, uncommon) to honor (someone) with something, to favor, to reward (+ m: with)

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥzj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḥz, geminated stem: ḥzz
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥzt, ḥzj
ḥzw, ḥz
ḥzt, ḥzwt, ḥzyt
ḥz
ḥz, ḥzy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥz8, ḥzz8
ḥr ḥzt, ḥr ḥzj
m ḥzt, m ḥzj
r ḥzt, r ḥzj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ḥz.n
ḥzw, ḥz, ḥzy
consecutive ḥz.jn
active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ḥzt, ḥzyt
perfective3 ḥz
active + .tj1, .tw2
obligative1 ḥz.ḫr
active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ḥz, ḥzy
active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ḥzw, ḥz, ḥzy
ḥzw, ḥz, ḥzy
potentialis1 ḥz.kꜣ
active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ḥz, ḥzy
active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ḥz.n
active + .tj1, .tw2
perfective ḥzw1, ḥzy, ḥz
active + .tj1, .tw2
ḥz
ḥzy, ḥz
imperfective ḥzz, ḥzzy, ḥzzw5
active + .tj1, .tw2
ḥzz, ḥzzj6, ḥzzy6
ḥzz, ḥzzw5
prospective ḥzw1, ḥzy, ḥz, ḥztj7
ḥzwtj1 4, ḥztj4, ḥzt4

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.
8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Coptic: ϩⲱⲥ (hōs)

References

  • ḥzi̯ (lemma ID 109620)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 154.2–155.25
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 176
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 268, 465.
  • Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 128