ḫntj

See also: ẖntj

Egyptian

Etymology 1

ḫnt (“at the head of”) +‎ -j (nisba ending).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛnti/
  • Conventional anglicization: khenti

Adjective

1. foremost

Inflection

Declension of ḫntj (nisba adjective)

	masculine	feminine
singular	ḫntj	ḫntt
dual	ḫntjwj, ḫntwj	ḫnttj
plural	ḫntjw, ḫntw	ḫntwt1, ḫntt2
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫntj  

ḫnt

Derived terms

• ḫntj-jpt.f
• ḫntj-jmntjw
• ḫntj-ḫtj
• ḫntj-zḥ-nṯr

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈχintit/ → /ˈχintiʔ/ → /ˈχenta/ → /ˈχentə/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈχintit/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈχintiʔ/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈχenta/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ˈχentə/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛnɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: kheneti

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to go forward, to advance, to be(come) foremost
2. (intransitive) to go upstream, to go southwards

Inflection

Conjugation of ḫntj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḫnt, geminated stem: ḫntt

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḫnt	ḫntw, ḫntyw, ḫnt	ḫntt, ḫntwt, ḫntyt	ḫnt	ḫnt, ḫnty

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ḫnt8	ḥr ḫnt	m ḫnt	r ḫnt

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ḫnt.n	consecutive	ḫnt.jn
terminative	ḫntt
perfective3	ḫnt	obligative1	ḫnt.ḫr
imperfective	ḫnt, ḫnty
prospective3	ḫntw, ḫnt, ḫnty	potentialis1	ḫnt.kꜣ
subjunctive	ḫnt, ḫnty

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ḫnt.n	—	—
perfective	ḫntw1, ḫnty, ḫnt	ḫnt	ḫnty, ḫnt
imperfective	ḫntt, ḫntty, ḫnttw5	ḫntt, ḫnttj6, ḫntty6	ḫntt, ḫnttw5
prospective	ḫntw1, ḫnty, ḫnt, ḫnttj7	ḫntwtj1 4, ḫnttj4, ḫntt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫntj  

ḫntj

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “go upstream”): ḫdj

Derived terms

• sḫntj
• ḫntyt

Etymology 3

Proper noun

 m

1. an epithet of the god Set

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 91, 168, 229, 258, 334.