ꜥẖj

See also: ꜥḫj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːçi/
- Conventional anglicization: akhi

Verb

3ae inf.

(intransitive) to fly (+ m: from, out of (a place); + r: to (a place)) [since the Middle Kingdom]
(intransitive) to fly away, to fly off [since the Middle Kingdom]
- c. 1800 BCE, The Story of Sinuhe, version R (pRamesseum A/pBerlin 10499, Verso):
  
  bjk ꜥẖj.f ḥnꜥ šmsw.f nn rḏjt rḫ st mšꜥ.f
  The falcon flew off together with his retinue without letting his army know about it.
(transitive) to fly to [Greco-Roman period]
(transitive) to fly through (the sky) [Greco-Roman period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥẖj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜥẖ, geminated stem: ꜥẖẖ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ꜥẖt, ꜥẖj	ꜥẖw, ꜥẖ	ꜥẖt, ꜥẖwt, ꜥẖyt	ꜥẖ	ꜥẖ, ꜥẖy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ꜥẖ⁸, ꜥẖẖ⁸	ḥr ꜥẖt, ḥr ꜥẖj	m ꜥẖt, m ꜥẖj	r ꜥẖt, r ꜥẖj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
aspect / mood	active	passive	aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ꜥẖ.n	ꜥẖw, ꜥẖ, ꜥẖy	consecutive	ꜥẖ.jn	active + .tj¹, .tw²
perfect	ꜥẖ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²
terminative	ꜥẖt, ꜥẖyt
perfective³	ꜥẖ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	ꜥẖ.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
imperfective	ꜥẖ, ꜥẖy	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	ꜥẖ.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	ꜥẖw, ꜥẖ, ꜥẖy	ꜥẖw, ꜥẖ, ꜥẖy	potentialis¹	ꜥẖ.kꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	ꜥẖw, ꜥẖ, ꜥẖy	active + .tj¹, .tw²
subjunctive	ꜥẖ, ꜥẖy	active + .tj¹, .tw²

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜥẖ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ꜥẖw¹, ꜥẖy, ꜥẖ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ꜥẖ	ꜥẖy, ꜥẖ
imperfective	ꜥẖẖ, ꜥẖẖy, ꜥẖẖw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ꜥẖẖ, ꜥẖẖj⁶, ꜥẖẖy⁶	ꜥẖẖ, ꜥẖẖw⁵
prospective	ꜥẖw¹, ꜥẖy, ꜥẖ, ꜥẖtj⁷	—	ꜥẖwtj^{1 4}, ꜥẖtj⁴, ꜥẖt⁴

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

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥẖj

ꜥẖj

ꜥḫj

ꜥḫy

ꜥḫj

[since the Middle Kingdom]

[Greco-Roman Period]

Synonyms

ꜥpj
pꜣj

References

“ꜥẖi̯ (lemma ID 40760)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 225.7–225.11
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 48