ḥns

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) narrow

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḥns ḥnsw, ḥns ḥnst ḥns ḥns ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḥns ḥr ḥns m ḥns r ḥns suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḥns.n consecutive ḥns.jn terminative ḥnst perfective3 ḥns obligative1 ḥns.ḫr imperfective ḥns prospective3 ḥns potentialis1 ḥns.kꜣ subjunctive ḥns verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḥns.n — — perfective ḥns ḥns ḥns, ḥnsw5, ḥnsy5 imperfective ḥns, ḥnsy, ḥnsw5 ḥns, ḥnsj6, ḥnsy6 ḥns, ḥnsw5 prospective ḥns, ḥnstj7 ḥnstj4, ḥnst4 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.

Synonyms

• gꜣw

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 36.