jqḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ikɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: iqeh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to enter (a place) [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]
2. (transitive) to come across to meet (someone)
3. (transitive, of rays of the sun, etc.) to illuminate, to shine on [Greco-Roman Period]
4. (intransitive, with r or m) to go to (a place)
5. (intransitive, with r or m, of floodwater and rays of the sun) to reach, to touch (a place)
6. (intransitive, with ḫr, of a fragrance) to reach (someone)

Inflection

Conjugation of jqḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: jqḥ, geminated stem: jqḥḥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jqḥ	jqḥw, jqḥ	jqḥt	jqḥ	jqḥ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
jqḥ	ḥr jqḥ	m jqḥ	r jqḥ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	jqḥ.n	jqḥw, jqḥ	consecutive	jqḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	jqḥt
perfective3	jqḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	jqḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	jqḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	jqḥ	jqḥḥ	potentialis1	jqḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	jqḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jqḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	jqḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	jqḥ	jqḥ, jqḥw5, jqḥy5
imperfective	jqḥ, jqḥy, jqḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	jqḥ, jqḥj6, jqḥy6	jqḥ, jqḥw5
prospective	jqḥ, jqḥtj7	—	jqḥtj4, jqḥt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jqḥ  

jqḥw	jqḥ	jqḥ	jqḥw	jqḥ
		[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “jqḥ (lemma ID 32330)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 138.8-16