ḥn

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

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to bring (a temple, the land, etc.) into order
2. (transitive) to equip, to supply (buildings or people) (+ m: with)
3. (transitive) to protect, to guard (something holy: a temple, tomb, or god) (+ r: against)
4. (transitive) to order, to command (something to be done)
5. (intransitive) to order, to command (+ n: someone; + r and infinitive: to do (something))
6. (transitive) to say forcefully, to impress (+ n: to, upon (someone))
7. (transitive) to engage (people) to do something, to set to some task
8. (transitive) to entrust or charge (+ n: someone) to do (something)
9. (transitive) to commend, to entrust (someone) (+ n: to (someone else))

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ḥn, geminated stem: ḥnn

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḥn ḥnw, ḥn ḥnt ḥn, j.ḥn ḥn, j.ḥn ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḥn ḥr ḥn m ḥn r ḥn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḥn.n ḥnw, ḥn consecutive ḥn.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḥnt perfective3 ḥn active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḥn.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḥn, j.ḥn1 active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḥn ḥnn potentialis1 ḥn.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḥn, j.ḥn1 active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḥn.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḥn active + .tj1, .tw2 ḥn ḥnn, ḥnnj6, ḥn2, ḥnw2 5, ḥny2 5 imperfective j.ḥn1, ḥn, ḥny, ḥnw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 j.ḥn1, j.ḥnw1 5, ḥn, ḥnj6, ḥny6 ḥn, ḥnw5 prospective ḥn, ḥntj7 — ḥntj4, ḥnt4 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 ḥn  

ḥn

[Old Kingdom]

Descendants

• Coptic: ϩⲱⲛ (hōn)

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to go with speed and purpose, to hurry, to advance speedily (+ r and infinitive or + following clause: to go do (something); + r: to (a place); + n: to (a person); + m: from (a place); + ḥnꜥ or jrm: with (someone))
2. (intransitive) to attack, to move against an enemy

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ḥn, geminated stem: ḥnn

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḥn ḥnw, ḥn ḥnt ḥn, j.ḥn ḥn, j.ḥn ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḥn ḥr ḥn m ḥn r ḥn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḥn.n consecutive ḥn.jn terminative ḥnt perfective3 ḥn obligative1 ḥn.ḫr imperfective ḥn, j.ḥn1 prospective3 ḥn potentialis1 ḥn.kꜣ subjunctive ḥn, j.ḥn1 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḥn.n — — perfective ḥn ḥn ḥnn, ḥnnj6, ḥn2, ḥnw2 5, ḥny2 5 imperfective j.ḥn1, ḥn, ḥny, ḥnw5 j.ḥn1, j.ḥnw1 5, ḥn, ḥnj6, ḥny6 ḥn, ḥnw5 prospective ḥn, ḥntj7 ḥntj4, ḥnt4 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.

References

• “ḥn (lemma ID 105900)”, “ḥn (lemma ID 105920)”, and “ḥn (lemma ID 105930)”, 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 (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 101.1–101.20, 102–103.22
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 171
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 83, 465.