ḥpt

See also: HPT

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb


 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to embrace
    • c. 2000–1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115), lines 5–6:






      rḏj ḥknw dwꜣ-nṯr z nb ḥr ḥpt snnw.f
      Praise has been given, the god has been thanked, and every man is embracing his fellow (lit. his second).

Inflection
Conjugation of ḥpt (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥpt, geminated stem: ḥptt
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥpt
 ḥptw, ḥpt
 ḥptt
 ḥpt
 ḥpt
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥpt
 ḥr ḥpt
 m ḥpt
 r ḥpt
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ḥpt.n
 ḥptw, ḥpt
 consecutive ḥpt.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ḥptt
perfective3 ḥpt
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative ḥpt.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ḥpt
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ḥpt
 ḥptt
 potentialis ḥpt.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ḥpt
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ḥpt.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ḥpt
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥpt
 ḥpt, ḥptw5, ḥpty5
imperfective ḥpt, ḥpty, ḥptw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥpt, ḥptj6, ḥpty6
 ḥpt, ḥptw5
prospective ḥpt, ḥpttj7
 — ḥpttj4, ḥptt4
  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 ḥpt  
ḥpt

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 308.
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