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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3-lit.
- (intransitive) to be(come) a child
Inflection
Conjugation of nḫn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: nḫn, geminated stem: nḫnn
| 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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nḫn
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nḫnw, nḫn
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nḫnt
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nḫn
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nḫn
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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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nḫn
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ḥr nḫn
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m nḫn
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r nḫn
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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| perfect
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nḫn.n
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consecutive
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nḫn.jn
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| terminative
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nḫnt
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| perfective3
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nḫn
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obligative1
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nḫn.ḫr
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| imperfective
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nḫn
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| prospective3
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nḫn
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potentialis1
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nḫn.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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nḫn
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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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active
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passive
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| perfect
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nḫn.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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nḫn
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nḫn
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nḫn, nḫnw5, nḫny5
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| imperfective
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nḫn, nḫny, nḫnw5
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nḫn, nḫnj6, nḫny6
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nḫn, nḫnw5
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| prospective
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nḫn, nḫntj7
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nḫntj4, nḫnt4
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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.
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Derived terms
Noun
m
- shrine
Inflection
Declension of nḫn (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nḫn
Proper noun
m./f. topo.
- Hieraconpolis
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nḫn
Derived terms
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 310.4–310.13, 311.15–311.18
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 138
