Egyptian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈtiːχit/ → /ˈtiːχiʔ/ → /ˈtiːχa/ → /ˈtiːχə/
Verb
3ae inf.
- (intransitive) to get drunk [since the Old Kingdom]
Inflection
Conjugation of tḫj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: tḫ, geminated stem: tḫḫ
| 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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tḫt, tḫj
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tḫw, tḫ
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tḫt, tḫwt, tḫyt
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tḫ
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tḫ, tḫy
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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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tḫ8, tḫḫ8
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ḥr tḫt, ḥr tḫj
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m tḫt, m tḫj
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r tḫt, r tḫj
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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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tḫ.n
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consecutive
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tḫ.jn
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| terminative
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tḫt, tḫyt
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| perfective3
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tḫ
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obligative1
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tḫ.ḫr
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| imperfective
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tḫ, tḫy
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| prospective3
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tḫw, tḫ, tḫy
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potentialis1
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tḫ.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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tḫ, tḫy
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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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tḫ.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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tḫw1, tḫy, tḫ
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tḫ
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tḫy, tḫ
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| imperfective
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tḫḫ, tḫḫy, tḫḫw5
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tḫḫ, tḫḫj6, tḫḫy6
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tḫḫ, tḫḫw5
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| prospective
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tḫw1, tḫy, tḫ, tḫtj7
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tḫwtj1 4, tḫtj4, tḫt4
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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.
8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Demotic: tẖy
- Akhmimic Coptic: ϯⳉⲉ (tixe)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲑⲓϧⲓ (thixi)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ϯϩⲓ (tihi)
- Sahidic Coptic: ϯϩⲉ (tihe)
Etymology 2
A nominalized nisba adjective, formed from tḫ (“plumb bob”) + -j (“nisba ending”), thus literally ‘(the one) of the plumb bob’, an epithet of Thoth.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
- the month of Thoth
Coordinate terms
References
- “tḫi̯ (lemma ID 173110)” and “Tḫj (lemma ID 853217)”, 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 (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 323.13–324.17, 325.18–325.20
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108.