nḥr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 May 2020

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛhɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: neher

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, with n or r) to match up to, to equal or resemble in a positive way
2. (transitive, rare) to live as long as (a time), to have one’s lifetime equal or match up to
   • c. 2255 BCE – 2246 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Merenre — west wall of the corridor’s middle section, line 12–13, spell 606.26–606.28:

     nmtj-m-zꜣ.f mr.n-rꜥ pn ḏj.sn ꜥnḫ.k nḥr.k jtrw ḥr-ꜣḫtj m jrt.sn rn.f m ḥr jr nṯrw

     O Nemtyemzaef Merenre, they will make you live and equal the seasons of Horakhty when they made his identity as the One Far From The Gods.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nḥr	nḥrw, nḥr	nḥrt	nḥr	nḥr

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	nḥr.n	nḥrw, nḥr	consecutive	nḥr.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	nḥrt
perfective3	nḥr	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	nḥr.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	nḥr	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	nḥr	nḥrr	potentialis1	nḥr.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	nḥr	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	nḥr.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	nḥr	active + .tj1, .tw2	nḥr	nḥr, nḥrw5, nḥry5
imperfective	nḥr, nḥry, nḥrw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	nḥr, nḥrj6, nḥry6	nḥr, nḥrw5
prospective	nḥr, nḥrtj7	—	nḥrtj4, nḥrt4
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 nḥr  

nḥrw

[Old Kingdom]

Derived terms

• nḥrw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 298.1–298.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 137