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
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. 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.