šfw

See also: SFW

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3ae inf.

  1. (intransitive, of injured or diseased body parts or floodwaters) to swell up [medical papyri, Book of the Dead, and since the Late Period]

Inflection
Conjugation of šfw (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: šf, geminated stem: šff
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
šft, šfj
 šfw, šf
 šft, šfwt, šfyt
 šf
 šf, šfy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
šf8, šff8
 ḥr šft, ḥr šfj
 m šft, m šfj
 r šft, r šfj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect šf.n
 consecutive šf.jn
terminative šft, šfyt
perfective3 šf
 obligative šf.ḫr
imperfective šf, šfy
prospective3 šfw, šf, šfy
 potentialis šf.kꜣ
subjunctive šf, šfy
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect šf.n
 — —
perfective šfw1, šfy, šf
 šf
 šfy, šf
imperfective šff, šffy, šffw5
 šff, šffj6, šffy6
 šff, šffw5
prospective šfw1, šfy, šf, šftj7
 šfwtj1 4, šftj4, šft4
  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.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šfw  


šfꜣ šfy
[Greco-Roman Period]

References
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 455.8–455.11
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