rkḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to light (a fire) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. (intransitive) to light a fire [Greco-Roman Period]
  3. (intransitive, of fire) to burn [Book of the Dead]
  4. (transitive) to burn (something) [Late Period to Greco-Roman Period]
  5. (transitive, of fire) to heat (something) [19th Dynasty medical texts]

Inflection
Conjugation of rkḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: rkḥ, geminated stem: rkḥḥ
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
rkḥ
 rkḥw, rkḥ
 rkḥt
 rkḥ
 rkḥ
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
rkḥ
 ḥr rkḥ
 m rkḥ
 r rkḥ
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect rkḥ.n
 rkḥw, rkḥ
 consecutive rkḥ.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative rkḥt
perfective3 rkḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative rkḥ.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective rkḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 rkḥ
 rkḥḥ
 potentialis rkḥ.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive rkḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect rkḥ.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective rkḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 rkḥ
 rkḥ, rkḥw5, rkḥy5
imperfective rkḥ, rkḥy, rkḥw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 rkḥ, rkḥj6, rkḥy6
 rkḥ, rkḥw5
prospective rkḥ, rkḥtj7
 — rkḥtj4, rkḥt4
  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, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rkḥ  
rkḥw
[19th–20th Dynasty]

References
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 458.9–458.14
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