jnḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /inɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: ineh

Noun

 m

1. (usually in the dual) eyebrow

Inflection

Declension of jnḥ (masculine)

singular	jnḥ
dual	jnḥwj
plural	jnḥw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jnḥ  

jnḥwj	jnḥwj
[Old Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]
in the dual	in the dual

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲉⲛϩ (enh), ⲛϩ (nh)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲛϩ (enh), ⲛϩ (nh)

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to surround, to enclose, to wall in (a place) (+ m: with, in (a wall, columns, etc.)) [since the 18th Dynasty]
2. (transitive) to frame, to rim, to decorate the edges of (a door, vessel, or other object) (+ m: with (inscriptions, metal, gold, etc.)) [since the 18th Dynasty]
3. (transitive, of rays of light) to surround, to embrace the whole of, to fill
4. (transitive) to surround, to encircle (enemy forces)
5. (transitive, of companions) to surround, to accompany (someone) [Greco-Roman Period]
6. (transitive, with m) to clothe with (an article of clothing) [Greco-Roman Period]
7. (transitive) to enclose protectively

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
jnḥ	jnḥw, jnḥ	jnḥt	jnḥ	jnḥ

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	jnḥ.n	jnḥw, jnḥ	consecutive	jnḥ.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	jnḥt
perfective3	jnḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	jnḥ.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	jnḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	jnḥ	jnḥḥ	potentialis1	jnḥ.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	jnḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	jnḥ.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	jnḥ	active + .tj1, .tw2	jnḥ	jnḥ, jnḥw5, jnḥy5
imperfective	jnḥ, jnḥy, jnḥw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	jnḥ, jnḥj6, jnḥy6	jnḥ, jnḥw5
prospective	jnḥ, jnḥtj7	—	jnḥtj4, jnḥt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jnḥ  

jnḥ

Derived terms

• jnḥw

References

• “jnḥ (lemma ID 27700)” and “jnḥ (lemma ID 27710)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 99.1–99.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 24
• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, pages 125, 128