ptḥ

See also: PTH

Egyptian


Egyptian Museum of Turin

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /piˈtaħ/ → /piˈtaħ/ → /pəˈtaħ/

Proper noun

 m

  1. Ptah, creator god and patron of craftsmen, worshipped at Memphis

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Arabic: بتاح‎
  • English: Ptah
  • French: Ptah
  • Greek: Φθάς (Fthás)
  • German: Ptah
  • Italian: Ptah
  • Latin: Phthas
  • Polish: Ptah
  • Russian: Пта (Pta)
  • Spanish: Ptah

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to make, to form, to create

Inflection
Conjugation of ptḥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ptḥ, geminated stem: ptḥḥ
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ptḥ
 ptḥw, ptḥ
 ptḥt
 ptḥ
 ptḥ
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ptḥ
 ḥr ptḥ
 m ptḥ
 r ptḥ
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ptḥ.n
 ptḥw, ptḥ
 consecutive ptḥ.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ptḥt
perfective3 ptḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative ptḥ.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ptḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ptḥ
 ptḥḥ
 potentialis ptḥ.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ptḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ptḥ.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ptḥ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ptḥ
 ptḥ, ptḥw5, ptḥy5
imperfective ptḥ, ptḥy, ptḥw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ptḥ, ptḥj6, ptḥy6
 ptḥ, ptḥw5
prospective ptḥ, ptḥtj7
 — ptḥtj4, ptḥt4
  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.

References
  1. Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 34
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