ḫnj

See also: hnj, ḥnj, and ẖnj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛni/
  • Conventional anglicization: kheni

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to alight, to land

Inflection

Conjugation of ḫnj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḫn, geminated stem: ḫnn

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫnt, ḫnj ḫnw, ḫn ḫnt, ḫnwt, ḫnyt ḫn ḫn, ḫny ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫn8, ḫnn8 ḥr ḫnt, ḥr ḫnj m ḫnt, m ḫnj r ḫnt, r ḫnj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect ḫn.n consecutive ḫn.jn terminative ḫnt, ḫnyt perfective3 ḫn obligative1 ḫn.ḫr imperfective ḫn, ḫny prospective3 ḫnw, ḫn, ḫny potentialis1 ḫn.kꜣ subjunctive ḫn, ḫny verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect ḫn.n — — perfective ḫnw1, ḫny, ḫn ḫn ḫny, ḫn imperfective ḫnn, ḫnny, ḫnnw5 ḫnn, ḫnnj6, ḫnny6 ḫnn, ḫnnw5 prospective ḫnw1, ḫny, ḫn, ḫntj7 ḫnwtj1 4, ḫntj4, ḫnt4 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 ḫnj  

ḫnj

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 235, 357.