sḥtp

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ḥtp (“to be content”).

Pronunciation

Verb

 caus. 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to make content, to propitiate, to calm
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 140–142:











      dj.j jn.t(w) n.k jbj ḥknw jwdnb ẖsꜣyt sntr n(j) gsw prw sḥtpw nṯr nb jm.f
      I will have them bring you laudanum, ḥknw-oil, jwdnb-incense, cassia, and the incense of the temple storerooms, with which every god is made content.

Inflection
Conjugation of sḥtp (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: sḥtp
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
sḥtp
 sḥtpw, sḥtp
 sḥtpt
 sḥtp
 sḥtp
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
sḥtp
 ḥr sḥtp
 m sḥtp
 r sḥtp
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect sḥtp.n
 sḥtpw, sḥtp
 consecutive sḥtp.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative sḥtpt
perfective3 sḥtp
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 sḥtp.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective sḥtp
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 sḥtpw, sḥtp, sḥtpy
 sḥtpw, sḥtp, sḥtpy
 potentialis1 sḥtp.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive sḥtp
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect sḥtp.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective sḥtp
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 sḥtp
 sḥtp, sḥtpw5, sḥtpy5
imperfective sḥtp, sḥtpy, sḥtpw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 sḥtp, sḥtpj6, sḥtpy6
 sḥtp, sḥtpw5
prospective sḥtp, sḥtptj7
 — sḥtpwtj1 4, sḥtptj4, sḥtpt4
  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.

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 164.
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