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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
4ae inf.
- (transitive) to cut apart, to dismember (evil ones) (+ m: with (a knife))
- (transitive) to cut off, to sever (limbs, heads, ears, etc.)
- (transitive) to punish (evil ones) generally
- (transitive) to drive off or otherwise subdue (enemies)
- (transitive) to remove, to dispose of (a quarrel)
- (transitive) to eliminate (lies)
- (transitive) to render (poison) harmless
Inflection
Conjugation of bḥnj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: bḥn, geminated stem: bḥnn
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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bḥn8
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ḥr bḥn
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m bḥn
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r bḥn
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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bḥn.n
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bḥnw, bḥn, bḥny
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consecutive
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bḥn.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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bḥnt
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| perfective3
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bḥn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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bḥn.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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bḥn, bḥny
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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bḥnw, bḥn, bḥny
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bḥnn
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potentialis1
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bḥn.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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bḥn, bḥny
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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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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bḥn.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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bḥnw1, bḥny, bḥn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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bḥn
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bḥny, bḥn
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| imperfective
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bḥnn, bḥnny, bḥnnw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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bḥnn, bḥnnj6, bḥnny6
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bḥnn, bḥnnw5
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| prospective
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bḥnw1, bḥny, bḥn, bḥntj7
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—
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bḥnwtj1 4, bḥntj4, bḥnt4
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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.
- Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of bḥnj
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bḥnwj
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Derived terms
References
- “bḥni̯ (lemma ID 56830)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 468.9–468.17
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 83
