ꜥnj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3ae inf.

  1. (intransitive, chiefly of people) to be(come) beautiful (+ m or ẖr: in (ornaments); + ḥr: in (a place); + m: as (someone)) [since Middle Kingdom literature]
  2. (intransitive, chiefly of people or rays of the sun) to be(come) pleasing (+ n: to (someone))
  3. (intransitive, of people) to act in a pleasing manner, to be(come) cheerful, agreeable, friendly (+ n or ḫr: to (someone))
  4. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) kind, benevolent, good (+ n: to (someone))

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥnj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜥn, geminated stem: ꜥnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜥnt, ꜥnj
 ꜥnw, ꜥn
 ꜥnt, ꜥnwt, ꜥnyt
 ꜥn
 ꜥn, ꜥny
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜥn8, ꜥnn8
 ḥr ꜥnt, ḥr ꜥnj
 m ꜥnt, m ꜥnj
 r ꜥnt, r ꜥnj
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ꜥn.n
 consecutive ꜥn.jn
terminative ꜥnt, ꜥnyt
perfective3 ꜥn
 obligative1 ꜥn.ḫr
imperfective ꜥn, ꜥny
prospective3 ꜥnw, ꜥn, ꜥny
 potentialis1 ꜥn.kꜣ
subjunctive ꜥn, ꜥny
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ꜥn.n
 — —
perfective ꜥnw1, ꜥny, ꜥn
 ꜥn
 ꜥny, ꜥn
imperfective ꜥnn, ꜥnny, ꜥnnw5
 ꜥnn, ꜥnnj6, ꜥnny6
 ꜥnn, ꜥnnw5
prospective ꜥnw1, ꜥny, ꜥn, ꜥntj7
 ꜥnwtj1 4, ꜥntj4, ꜥnt4

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.
8 Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnj  


ꜥnj ꜥnj ꜥnj ꜥnj ꜥnj
[Late and Greco-Roman Periods] [Late and Greco-Roman Periods]
abbreviation abbreviation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Demotic: ꜥn
    • ⇒ Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲛⲉⲓ (anei)
    • ⇒ Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲛⲁⲓ (anai)
    • ⇒ Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲛⲁⲓ (anai)

References

  • “ꜥni̯ (lemma ID 38070)”, 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 190.1–190.18
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 43
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