ḫwzj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (reconstructed Old Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈχiwzit/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xuːzi/
  • Conventional anglicization: khuzi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (transitive) to pound
2. (transitive) to build
   • 6th Dynasty, Giza, Western Cemetery, Shaft G 2188 Y, Block of sunk relief inscription mentioning the dog Abutiu (35-10-22/Cairo JE 67573), lines 6–9:

     
     
     

     rḏj ḥm.f [s]fṯ ḫwz n[.f] jz jn jzwt nt (j)qdw

     His Majesty gave pine oil and (ordered) that a tomb be built for him by a gang of builders.

Inflection

Conjugation of ḫwzj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḫwz

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḫwzt, ḫwzj	ḫwzw, ḫwzyw, ḫwz	ḫwzt, ḫwzwt, ḫwzyt	ḫwz	ḫwz, ḫwzy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ḫwz8	ḥr ḫwzt, ḥr ḫwzj	m ḫwzt, ḥr ḫwzj	r ḫwzt, ḥr ḫwzj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ḫwz.n	ḫwzw, ḫwz, ḫwzy	consecutive	ḫwz.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ḫwzt
perfective3	ḫwz	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ḫwz.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ḫwz, ḫwzy	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ḫwzw, ḫwz, ḫwzy	ḫwz	potentialis1	ḫwz.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ḫwz, ḫwzy	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḫwz.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḫwzw1, ḫwzy, ḫwz	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḫwz	ḫwzy, ḫwz
imperfective	ḫwz, ḫwzy, ḫwzw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḫwz, ḫwzj6, ḫwzy6	ḫwz, ḫwzw5
prospective	ḫwzw1, ḫwzy, ḫwz, ḫwztj7	—	ḫwzwtj1 4, ḫwztj4, ḫwzt4
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 ḫwzj  

ḫwsj	ḫwsj

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 36, 295.