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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3ae inf.
- (intransitive or transitive) to lament (± n: to (someone))
- (intransitive, in an adjectival predicate with suffixed -wj) to be(come) lamentable or pitiful
Inflection
Conjugation of nḫj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: nḫ, geminated stem: nḫḫ
| 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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nḫt, nḫj
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nḫw, nḫ
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nḫt, nḫwt, nḫyt
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nḫ
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nḫ, nḫy
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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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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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nḫ.n
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nḫw, nḫ, nḫy
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consecutive
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nḫ.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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nḫt, nḫyt
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| perfective3
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nḫ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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nḫ.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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nḫ, nḫy
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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nḫw, nḫ, nḫy
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nḫw, nḫ, nḫy
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potentialis1
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nḫ.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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nḫ, nḫy
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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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nḫ.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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nḫw1, nḫy, nḫ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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nḫ
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nḫy, nḫ
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| imperfective
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nḫḫ, nḫḫy, nḫḫw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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nḫḫ, nḫḫj6, nḫḫy6
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nḫḫ, nḫḫw5
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| prospective
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nḫw1, nḫy, nḫ, nḫtj7
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—
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nḫwtj1 4, nḫtj4, nḫt4
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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 nḫj
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 305.11–305.14
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 137
