tḫj

Egyptian

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ˈtiːχit/ → /ˈtiːχiʔ/ → /ˈtiːχə/

Verb

 3ae inf.

  1. (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 imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
tḫt, tḫj
 tḫw, tḫ
 tḫt, tḫwt, tḫyt
 tḫ
 tḫ, tḫy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
tḫ8, tḫḫ8
 ḥr tḫt, ḥr tḫj
 m tḫt, m tḫj
 r tḫt, r tḫj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect tḫ.n
 consecutive tḫ.jn
terminative tḫt, tḫyt
perfective3 tḫ
 obligative1 tḫ.ḫr
imperfective tḫ, tḫy
prospective3 tḫw, tḫ, tḫy
 potentialis1 tḫ.kꜣ
subjunctive tḫ, tḫy
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect tḫ.n
 — —
perfective tḫw1, tḫy, tḫ
 tḫ
 tḫy, tḫ
imperfective tḫḫ, tḫḫy, tḫḫw5
 tḫḫ, tḫḫj6, tḫḫy6
 tḫḫ, tḫḫw5
prospective tḫw1, tḫy, tḫ, tḫtj7
 tḫwtj1 4, tḫtj4, tḫt4
  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.
Derived terms
  • tḫ
  • tḫw
  • tḫt
Descendants
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲑⲓϧⲓ (thixi)
  • 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

  1. The month of Thoth

See also

References
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