skn

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

sk
n		 I3

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive, of crocodiles and people) to be(come) greedy or voracious (+ ḥr: to lust after)
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:
      mAtwI3riH_SPACE
      W      		 fF51
      Z2      		 rgsZ1sk
      n      		 I3A1O43p
      a      		 a
      f      		 n
      k
      (j)m ꜣtw r jwf r gs skn šzp dj.f n.k
      Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you.

Inflection

Conjugation of skn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: skn, geminated stem: sknn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
skn
 sknw, skn
 sknt
 skn
 skn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
skn
 ḥr skn
 m skn
 r skn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect skn.n
 consecutive skn.jn
terminative sknt
perfective3 skn
 obligative1 skn.ḫr
imperfective skn
prospective3 skn
 potentialis1 skn.kꜣ
subjunctive skn
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect skn.n
 — —
perfective skn
 skn
 skn, sknw5, skny5
imperfective skn, skny, sknw5
 skn, sknj6, skny6
 skn, sknw5
prospective skn, skntj7
 skntj4, sknt4
  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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of skn  
z
k
n		 I3
skn

References

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