whj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɛhi/
  • Conventional anglicization: wehi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to escape, to slip away (+ m or ḥr: from, out of) [since the Middle Kingdom]
2. (intransitive, of people or arrows) to miss the target (in shooting)
3. (intransitive, of people or plans) to fail, to not succeed (+ m: in, at, because of)
4. (intransitive) to fail, to come to ruin, be undone
5. (intransitive) to be lacking (+ m: in)

Inflection

Conjugation of whj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: wh, geminated stem: whh

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
wht, whj	whw, wh	wht, whwt, whyt	wh	wh, why

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
wh8, whh8	ḥr wht, ḥr whj	m wht, m whj	r wht, r whj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	wh.n	consecutive	wh.jn
terminative	wht, whyt
perfective3	wh	obligative1	wh.ḫr
imperfective	wh, why
prospective3	whw, wh, why	potentialis1	wh.kꜣ
subjunctive	wh, why

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	wh.n	—	—
perfective	whw1, why, wh	wh	why, wh
imperfective	whh, whhy, whhw5	whh, whhj6, whhy6	whh, whhw5
prospective	whw1, why, wh, whtj7	whwtj1 4, whtj4, wht4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of whj  

whꜣ	whꜣy
[19th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]

References

• “whi̯ (lemma ID 48330)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 339.1–339.15
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 65