qḥqḥ

Egyptian[edit]

Reduplication of qḥ (“to break stones”).

4-lit.

(transitive) to hammer, to beat (metal: copper, gold, or silver) into a sheet [since the Middle Kingdom]

― ḥḏ m qḥqḥ ― beaten silver
(transitive) to hammer at, to carve (a sculpture)

Conjugation of qḥqḥ (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: qḥqḥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
qḥqḥ	qḥqḥw, qḥqḥ	qḥqḥt	qḥqḥ	qḥqḥ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
qḥqḥ	ḥr qḥqḥ	m qḥqḥ	r qḥqḥ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	qḥqḥ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	qḥqḥ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	qḥqḥ	qḥqḥ, qḥqḥw⁵, qḥqḥy⁵
imperfective	qḥqḥ, qḥqḥy, qḥqḥw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	qḥqḥ, qḥqḥj⁶, qḥqḥy⁶	qḥqḥ, qḥqḥw⁵
prospective	qḥqḥ, qḥqḥtj⁷	—	qḥqḥwtj^{1 4}, qḥqḥtj⁴, qḥqḥt⁴
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.

“qḥqḥ (lemma ID 162150)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 67.6–67.8