ẖn
Egyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /çɛn/
- Conventional anglicization: khen
Verb
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2-lit.
- (intransitive) to approach (+ m or n: to approach (someone or some place)) [since the Middle Kingdom]
Inflection
editConjugation of ẖn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ẖn, geminated stem: ẖnn
infinitival forms | imperative | |||
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infinitive | negatival complement | complementary infinitive1 | singular | plural |
ẖn |
ẖnw, ẖn |
ẖnt |
ẖn, j.ẖn |
ẖn, j.ẖn |
‘pseudoverbal’ forms | |||
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stative stem | periphrastic imperfective2 | periphrastic prospective2 | |
ẖn |
ḥr ẖn |
m ẖn |
r ẖn |
suffix conjugation | |||
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aspect / mood | active | contingent | |
aspect / mood | active | ||
perfect | ẖn.n |
consecutive | ẖn.jn |
terminative | ẖnt | ||
perfective3 | ẖn |
obligative1 | ẖn.ḫr |
imperfective | ẖn, j.ẖn1 | ||
prospective3 | ẖn |
potentialis1 | ẖn.kꜣ |
subjunctive | ẖn, j.ẖn1 |
verbal adjectives | |||
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aspect / mood | relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms | participles | |
active | active | passive | |
perfect | ẖn.n |
— | — |
perfective | ẖn |
ẖn |
ẖnn, ẖnnj6, ẖn2, ẖnw2 5, ẖny2 5 |
imperfective | j.ẖn1, ẖn, ẖny, ẖnw5 |
j.ẖn1, j.ẖnw1 5, ẖn, ẖnj6, ẖny6 |
ẖn, ẖnw5 |
prospective | ẖn, ẖntj7 |
ẖntj4, ẖnt4 | |
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Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖn
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ẖnw | |||
[since the 19th Dynasty] |
Descendants
editNoun
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m
- tent [since the Pyramid Texts]
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.1–1.2:
- wn ẖn n grw wsḫ st nt hr m mdww
- The tent is open to the quiet man; the place of the man calm in speech is broad.[1]
Inflection
editAlternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖn
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ẖn | ẖn | ẖn | ||||||||
[Pyramid Texts] | [Pyramid Texts] | [19th Dynasty] |
References
edit- “ẖn (lemma ID 123110)” and “ẖn (lemma ID 123090)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 368.1–368.8, 373.9–373.18
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 201
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48
- ^ Alternatively, taking
as imperative (j)m: ‘…the place of the calm man is broad. Don’t speak!’ The first clause can also be interpreted in two different ways. If
represents the preposition n, then ‘The tent is open to the quiet man’; but if it represents the genitival adjective n(j), then ‘The tent of the quiet man is open’. The first interpretation is more appealing semantically, but the second is favored by parallelism with the following clause.