sfḫḫ

Egyptian[edit]

s- (causative prefix) +‎ fḫḫ (“to loosen”), itself a reduplication of fḫ (“to loosen, to give up”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛfɛxɛx/
- Conventional anglicization: sefekhekh

caus. 2ae gem.

Conjugation of sfḫḫ (causative second geminate / caus. 2ae gem. / caus. II. gem.) — base stem: sfḫ, geminated stem: sfḫḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sfḫḫ	sfḫḫ	sfḫḫt	sfḫḫ	sfḫḫ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sfḫḫ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sfḫḫ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
imperfective	sfḫḫ, sfḫḫy, sfḫḫw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sfḫḫ, sfḫḫj⁶, sfḫḫy⁶	sfḫḫ, sfḫḫw⁵
prospective	sfḫḫ, sfḫḫtj⁷	—	sfḫḫwtj^{1 4}, sfḫḫtj⁴, sfḫḫt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 162.