tn
Translingual
editSymbol
edittn
English
editNoun
edittn
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth except Canada, Ireland) Abbreviation of trillion.
Alternative forms
editCoordinate terms
editAdverb
edittn (not comparable)
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of tonight.
- 2014 October 15, @spanishgodess_, Twitter[1]:
- I'm just annoyed cuz you didn't text me tn and ugh fuck you
Anagrams
editEgyptian
editPronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tɛn/
- Conventional anglicization: ten
Determiner
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f sg proximal demonstrative determiner
Usage notes
editThis demonstrative was originally a determiner but could later be used alone, like a pronoun. When used as a determiner it follows the noun it describes.
It forms a contrastive pair with the demonstrative tf, in which tn is proximal.
Inflection
editOld Egyptian demonstratives
determiners | pronouns1 | adverbs | ||||||
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number | singular | dual | plural | unmarked | ||||
gender | masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | unmarked | |
proximal to speaker | pn |
tn, jtn |
*jpnj |
*jptnj |
jpn |
jptn |
nn |
— |
distal | pf |
tf |
*jpfj |
*jptfj |
jpf |
jptf |
nf |
— |
proximal to spoken of | pj, pw, py, p |
tj, tw, jtw |
jpwj |
*jptwj |
jpw |
jptw |
nw |
— |
vocative | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
— |
— |
— |
— |
nꜣ |
ꜥꜣ |
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Middle Egyptian demonstratives
Late Egyptian demonstratives and articles
masculine | feminine | plural | adverb | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pronoun | pꜣw |
dj | ||||
determiners and pronouns | pꜣj |
tꜣj |
nꜣj | |||
possessive determiners (used with suffix pronouns) | pꜣy |
tꜣy |
nꜣy | |||
relational pronouns (‘possessive prefixes’) | p-n, pꜣ |
t-nt, tꜣ |
nꜣyw, nꜣ | |||
definite articles | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
nꜣ1 | |||
indefinite articles | wꜥ1 |
nhꜣy1 | ||||
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Pronoun
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pl f sg 2. enclitic (‘dependent’) pronoun
- Variant spelling of ṯn
References
edit- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 51, 54–55.
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
Estonian
editNoun
edittn
- Abbreviation of tänav.
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