ḫnp

See also: HNP

Egyptian

FWOTD – 4 August 2021

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛnɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: khenep

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to snatch, to steal
2. (transitive) to catch (a ball)
3. (transitive) to present (an offering, especially of water)
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 4:

     ḫnp.n n.f nnw mw.f ḫnt n.f mḥ(y)t mss pt ṯꜣw r fnḏ.f r ḥtp.tw jb.f

     Nun has presented his waters to him, while the north wind goes southward for him, for whose nose the sky brings forth breath in order that his heart be contented,

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫnp ḫnpw, ḫnp ḫnpt ḫnp ḫnp ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫnp ḥr ḫnp m ḫnp r ḫnp suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḫnp.n ḫnpw, ḫnp consecutive ḫnp.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḫnpt perfective3 ḫnp active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḫnp.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḫnp active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḫnp ḫnpp potentialis1 ḫnp.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḫnp active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḫnp.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḫnp active + .tj1, .tw2 ḫnp ḫnp, ḫnpw5, ḫnpy5 imperfective ḫnp, ḫnpy, ḫnpw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ḫnp, ḫnpj6, ḫnpy6 ḫnp, ḫnpw5 prospective ḫnp, ḫnptj7 — ḫnptj4, ḫnpt4 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 ḫnp  

ḫnp

Descendants

• Bohairic Coptic: ⲕⲱⲗⲡ (kōlp)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 290.5–290.17
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 192