ẖꜣk

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) cunning, devious (+ r: to be hostile against)

Usage notes

This verb is almost exclusively used as part of the term ẖꜣk-jb.

Inflection

Conjugation of ẖꜣk (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ẖꜣk, geminated stem: ẖꜣkk
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ẖꜣk
ẖꜣkw, ẖꜣk
ẖꜣkt
ẖꜣk
ẖꜣk
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ẖꜣk
ḥr ẖꜣk
m ẖꜣk
r ẖꜣk
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ẖꜣk.n
consecutive ẖꜣk.jn
terminative ẖꜣkt
perfective3 ẖꜣk
obligative1 ẖꜣk.ḫr
imperfective ẖꜣk
prospective3 ẖꜣk
potentialis1 ẖꜣk.kꜣ
subjunctive ẖꜣk
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ẖꜣk.n
perfective ẖꜣk
ẖꜣk
ẖꜣk, ẖꜣkw5, ẖꜣky5
imperfective ẖꜣk, ẖꜣky, ẖꜣkw5
ẖꜣk, ẖꜣkj6, ẖꜣky6
ẖꜣk, ẖꜣkw5
prospective ẖꜣk, ẖꜣktj7
ẖꜣktj4, ẖꜣkt4

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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