sfkk

Egyptian[edit]

From an (unattested) reduplication of fk (“become desolate”) prefixed with s- (causative prefix).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛfɛkɛk/
- Conventional anglicization: sefekek

caus. 2ae gem.

Conjugation of sfkk (causative second geminate / caus. 2ae gem. / caus. II. gem.) — base stem: sfk, geminated stem: sfkk

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sfkk	sfkk	sfkkt	sfkk	sfkk

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sfkk.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sfkk	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
imperfective	sfkk, sfkky, sfkkw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sfkk, sfkkj⁶, sfkky⁶	sfkk, sfkkw⁵
prospective	sfkk, sfkktj⁷	—	sfkkwtj^{1 4}, sfkktj⁴, sfkkt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158.