ḥkn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛkɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: heken

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to cheer
2. (transitive) to praise, to acclaim

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḥkn	ḥknw, ḥkn	ḥknt	ḥkn	ḥkn

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ḥkn.n	ḥknw, ḥkn	consecutive	ḥkn.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ḥknt
perfective3	ḥkn	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ḥkn.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ḥkn	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ḥkn	ḥknn	potentialis1	ḥkn.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ḥkn	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḥkn.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḥkn	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḥkn	ḥkn, ḥknw5, ḥkny5
imperfective	ḥkn, ḥkny, ḥknw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḥkn, ḥknj6, ḥkny6	ḥkn, ḥknw5
prospective	ḥkn, ḥkntj7	—	ḥkntj4, ḥknt4
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.

Derived terms

• ḥknw

References

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 98