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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2ae gem.
- (intransitive or reflexive) to turn back (+ ḥr: from)
- (intransitive) to come back, to return
- (transitive) to turn back, to repel
- (transitive) to render (plans, arrangements, etc.) ineffective or inoperable
- (transitive) to tie up, to entwine
Inflection
Conjugation of ꜥnn (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: ꜥn, geminated stem: ꜥnn
infinitival forms
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imperative
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infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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ꜥnn8
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ꜥnn
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ꜥnnt
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ꜥnn, ꜥn
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ꜥnn, ꜥn
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‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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ꜥnn, ꜥn
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ḥr ꜥnn
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m ꜥnn
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r ꜥnn
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verbal adjectives
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aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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active
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passive
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active
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passive
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perfect
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ꜥn.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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perfective
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ꜥn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜥn
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ꜥn, ꜥnw5, ꜥny5
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imperfective
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ꜥnn, ꜥnny, ꜥnnw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜥnn, ꜥnnj6, ꜥnny6
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ꜥnn, ꜥnnw5
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prospective
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ꜥn, ꜥntj7
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—
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ꜥnntj4, ꜥnnt4
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- 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.
- ꜥn before suffix pronouns.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnn
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ꜥnn
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ꜥnn
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in sense ‘tie up’
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in sense ‘tie up’
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Derived terms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 188.13–189.7, 192.9
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 43
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 315.