thj

See also: tḫj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛhi/
  • Conventional anglicization: tehi

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to transgress, to do wrong
2. (intransitive with r or transitive) to wrong, to abuse, to lay hands on, to violate (someone)
3. (transitive) to defeat (the enemy, evil ones, etc.) [Greco-Roman Period]
4. (intransitive with r or transitive) to commit wrong against (a god), to sin
5. (intransitive with r or transitive) to damage, to harm (an object, building, or animal)
6. (intransitive with r or transitive) to mutilate (limbs, body parts, corpses)
7. (intransitive with r or transitive) to invade, to trespass into, to attack (a land or settlement)
8. (transitive) to transgress, to violate, to trespass over (a boundary) [19th and 20th Dynasty]
9. (transitive) to falsify (weights and measures)
10. (intransitive) to stray from or defy one’s orders or what has been said, to be heedless or insubordinate
11. (intransitive with ḥr or transitive) to deviate from, to disobey, to stray from (a path, a plan, one’s orders, etc.)
12. (transitive) to fail to keep (one’s appointed time), to neglect, to miss (a set time)

Inflection

Conjugation of thj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: th, geminated stem: thh

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural tht, thj thw, th tht, thwt, thyt th th, thy ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 th8, thh8 ḥr tht, ḥr thj m tht, m thj r tht, r thj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect th.n thw, th, thy consecutive th.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative tht, thyt perfective3 th active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 th.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective th, thy active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 thw, th, thy thw, th, thy potentialis1 th.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive th, thy active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect th.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective thw1, thy, th active + .tj1, .tw2 th thy, th imperfective thh, thhy, thhw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 thh, thhj6, thhy6 thh, thhw5 prospective thw1, thy, th, thtj7 — thwtj1 4, thtj4, tht4 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, dual .sn/.snj, 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 thj  

thj	thj	thj	thj	thꜣj
[Pyramid Texts]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the 18th Dynasty]

Derived terms

• thw
• th-mtn

References

• “thi̯ (lemma ID 172920)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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 (1931), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 319.3–320.23
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 300