nḫn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛxɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: nekhen

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) a child

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nḫn	nḫnw, nḫn	nḫnt	nḫn	nḫn

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	nḫn.n	consecutive	nḫn.jn
terminative	nḫnt
perfective3	nḫn	obligative1	nḫn.ḫr
imperfective	nḫn
prospective3	nḫn	potentialis1	nḫn.kꜣ
subjunctive	nḫn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nḫn.n	—	—
perfective	nḫn	nḫn	nḫn, nḫnw5, nḫny5
imperfective	nḫn, nḫny, nḫnw5	nḫn, nḫnj6, nḫny6	nḫn, nḫnw5
prospective	nḫn, nḫntj7	nḫntj4, nḫnt4
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

• nḫnw
• nḫnt
• snḫn

Noun

 m

1. shrine

Inflection

Declension of nḫn (masculine)

singular	nḫn
dual	nḫnwj
plural	nḫnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nḫn  

nḫn

[New Kingdom]

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

1. Hieraconpolis

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nḫn  

nḫn	nḫn	nḫn	nḫn
	[New Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ẖn-nḫn

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 310.4–310.13, 311.15–311.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 138