ẖn

See also: HN, hN, .hn, h*n, Hn., ḥn, and ḫn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 2-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to approach

Inflection
Conjugation of ẖn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ẖn, geminated stem: ẖnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ẖn
 ẖnw, ẖn
 ẖnt
 ẖn, j.ẖn
 ẖn, j.ẖn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ẖn
 ḥr ẖn
 m ẖn
 r ẖn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ẖn.n
 consecutive ẖn.jn
terminative ẖnt
perfective3 ẖn
 obligative ẖn.ḫr
imperfective ẖn, j.ẖn1
prospective3 ẖn
 potentialis ẖn.kꜣ
subjunctive ẖn, j.ẖn1
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ẖn.n
 — —
perfective ẖn
 ẖn
 ẖnn, ẖnnj6, ẖn2, ẖnw2 5, ẖny2 5
imperfective j.ẖn1, ẖn, ẖny, ẖnw5
 j.ẖn1, j.ẖnw1 5, ẖn, ẖnj6, ẖny6
 ẖn, ẖnw5
prospective ẖn, ẖntj7
 ẖntj4, ẖnt4
  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, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Noun

 m

  1. tent
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.1–1.2:


      wn ẖn n grw wsḫ st nt hr m mdww
      Open is the tent to the quiet one; broad is the place of the one calm in speech.

Inflection
Declension of ẖn (masculine)
singular


ẖn
dual


ẖnwj
plural


ẖnw

References
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 373.9–373.18
  • Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48
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