nznzn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛzɛnzɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: nezenzen

Verb

 5-lit.

1. (intransitive) to burn up

Inflection

Conjugation of nznzn (quinquiliteral / 5-lit. / 5rad.) — base stem: nznzn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nznzn	nznznw, nznzn	nznznt	nznzn	nznzn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
nznzn	ḥr nznzn	m nznzn	r nznzn

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	nznzn.n	consecutive	nznzn.jn
terminative	nznznt
perfective3	nznzn	obligative1	nznzn.ḫr
imperfective	nznzn
prospective3	nznznw, nznzn	potentialis1	nznzn.kꜣ
subjunctive	nznzn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nznzn.n	—	—
perfective	nznzn	nznzn	nznzn, nznznw5, nznzny5
imperfective	nznzn, nznzny, nznznw5	nznzn, nznznj6, nznzny6	nznzn, nznznw5
prospective	nznzn, nznzntj7	nznznwtj1 4, nznzntj4, nznznt4
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.

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 290.