wjn

See also: .wjn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to spurn, to reject, to thrust aside (someone or something) [Middle Kingdom literature to Kushite Period]
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:

     (j)m ꜣtw r jwf r gs skn šzp dj.f n.k (j)m wjn st kꜣ szft pw

     Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you. Don’t reject it; then it will be something soothing.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural wjn wjnw, wjn wjnt wjn wjn ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 wjn ḥr wjn m wjn r wjn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect wjn.n wjnw, wjn consecutive wjn.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative wjnt perfective3 wjn active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 wjn.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective wjn active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 wjn wjnn potentialis1 wjn.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive wjn active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect wjn.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective wjn active + .tj1, .tw2 wjn wjn, wjnw5, wjny5 imperfective wjn, wjny, wjnw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 wjn, wjnj6, wjny6 wjn, wjnw5 prospective wjn, wjntj7 — wjntj4, wjnt4 1 Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. 2 Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 3 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. 4 Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. 5 Only in the masculine singular. 6 Only in the masculine. 7 Only in the feminine.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wjn  

wjn	wjn	wjn	wjn	wjn	wjꜣn
					[Late Period]

References

• “wjn (lemma ID 44120)”, 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 272.12–272.14
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 56
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 149, 334, 458.