tkn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛkɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: teken

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to approach

Inflection

Conjugation of tkn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: tkn, geminated stem: tknn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
tkn	tknw, tkn	tknt	tkn	tkn

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	tkn.n	tknw, tkn	consecutive	tkn.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	tknt
perfective3	tkn	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	tkn.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	tkn	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	tkn	tknn	potentialis1	tkn.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	tkn	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	tkn.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	tkn	active + .tj1, .tw2	tkn	tkn, tknw5, tkny5
imperfective	tkn, tkny, tknw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	tkn, tknj6, tkny6	tkn, tknw5
prospective	tkn, tkntj7	—	tkntj4, tknt4
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 242.