ḥntj

Egyptian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛnti/
  • Conventional anglicization: henti

Noun

 m du

1. ends, far reaches, span (of time)
   1. span, term, duration of time [since the Old Kingdom]
   2. long time, eternity (+ genitive: endlessly many of (some span of time), an eternity of)
   3. future, time to come
   4. (negated) ends, limits of time [Middle Kingdom literature and 18th Dynasty]
   5. (with genitive) lifetime, lifespan (of someone) [Greco-Roman Period]
2. (uncommon) ends, far reaches, span (of space)
   1. uttermost ends, furthest reaches (of the sky) [Book of the Dead]
   2. span, space (of a unit of length) [18th Dynasty and Greco-Roman Period]
   3. two sides (of a river) [18th Dynasty]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥntj  

ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj
[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]
						abbreviation	abbreviation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛnɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: heneti

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be greedy or covetous (+ ḥr: after, over) [Middle Kingdom literature and Late Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥntj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḥnt, geminated stem: ḥntt

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḥnt ḥntw, ḥntyw, ḥnt ḥntt, ḥntwt, ḥntyt ḥnt ḥnt, ḥnty ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḥnt8 ḥr ḥnt m ḥnt r ḥnt suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḥnt.n consecutive ḥnt.jn terminative ḥntt perfective3 ḥnt obligative1 ḥnt.ḫr imperfective ḥnt, ḥnty prospective3 ḥntw, ḥnt, ḥnty potentialis1 ḥnt.kꜣ subjunctive ḥnt, ḥnty verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḥnt.n — — perfective ḥntw1, ḥnty, ḥnt ḥnt ḥnty, ḥnt imperfective ḥntt, ḥntty, ḥnttw5 ḥntt, ḥnttj6, ḥntty6 ḥntt, ḥnttw5 prospective ḥntw1, ḥnty, ḥnt, ḥnttj7 ḥntwtj1 4, ḥnttj4, ḥntt4 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 ḥntj  

ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj

References

• “ḥn.tj (lemma ID 106120)” and “ḥnti̯ (lemma ID 107400)”, 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 105.10–106.16, 121.12–121.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 171–173