# tḫj
## Egyptian
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (reconstructed) IPA: /ˈtiːχit/ → /ˈtiːχiʔ/ → /ˈtiːχa/ → /ˈtiːχə/
* (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA: /ˈtiːχit/
* (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA: /ˈtiːχiʔ/
* (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA: /ˈtiːχa/
* (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA: /ˈtiːχə/
* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /tɛxi/
** Conventional anglicization: tekhi

#### Verb

3ae inf.
* (intransitive) to get drunk [since the Old Kingdom]

##### Inflection

infinitival forms
imperative
infinitive
negatival complement
complementary infinitive$^1$
singular
plural
tḫt, tḫj
tḫw, tḫ
tḫt, tḫwt, tḫyt
tḫ
tḫ, tḫy
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem
periphrastic imperfective$^2$
periphrastic prospective$^2$
tḫ$^8$, tḫḫ$^8$
ḥr tḫt, ḥr tḫj
m tḫt, m tḫj
r tḫt, r tḫj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
contingent
aspect / mood
active
perfect
tḫ.n
consecutive
tḫ.jn
terminative
tḫt, tḫyt
perfective$^3$
tḫ
obligative$^1$
tḫ.ḫr
imperfective
tḫ, tḫy
prospective$^3$
tḫw, tḫ, tḫy
potentialis$^1$
tḫ.kꜣ
subjunctive
tḫ, tḫy
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
active
passive
perfect
tḫ.n
perfective
tḫw$^1$, tḫy, tḫ
tḫ
tḫy, tḫ
imperfective
tḫḫ, tḫḫy, tḫḫw$^5$
tḫḫ, tḫḫj$^6$, tḫḫy$^6$
tḫḫ, tḫḫw$^5$
prospective
tḫw$^1$, tḫy, tḫ, tḫtj$^7$
tḫwtj$^{14}$, tḫtj$^4$, tḫt$^4$
$^1$ 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. :

##### Derived terms

* tḫ
* tḫw
* tḫt

##### Descendants

* Demotic: tẖy
** Akhmimic Coptic: ϯⳉⲉ (tixe)
** Bohairic Coptic: ⲑⲓϧⲓ (thixi)
** Fayyumic Coptic: ϯϩⲓ (tihi)
** Sahidic Coptic: ϯϩⲉ (tihe)

### Etymology 2

A nominalized nisba adjective, formed from tḫ (“plumb bob”) +‎ -j (“nisba ending”), thus literally ‘(the one) of the plumb bob’, an epithet of Thoth.

#### Pronunciation

* (modern Egyptological) IPA: /tɛxi/
** Conventional anglicization: tekhi

#### Proper noun

m
* the month of Thoth

##### Coordinate terms

* tḫj
* mnḫt
* ẖnt-ḥwt-ḥr
* nḥb-kꜣw
* šf-bdt
* rkḥ-ꜥꜣ
* rkḥ-nḏs
* rnn-wtt
* ḫnsw
* ḫnt-ẖty-prtj
* jpt-ḥmt
* wp-rnpt

### References

* “tḫi̯ (lemma ID 173110)” and “Tḫj (lemma ID 853217)”, 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 323.13–324.17, 325.18–325.20
* James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108.