ḫnz

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛnɛz/
  • Conventional anglicization: khenez

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to traverse, to travel through (a region or place) by foot or by boat
2. (intransitive, uncommon) to travel (+ r: to)
3. (intransitive, medicine, of disease) to spread

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ḫnz ḫnzw, ḫnz ḫnzt ḫnz ḫnz ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ḫnz ḥr ḫnz m ḫnz r ḫnz suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ḫnz.n ḫnzw, ḫnz consecutive ḫnz.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ḫnzt perfective3 ḫnz active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ḫnz.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ḫnz active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ḫnz ḫnzz potentialis1 ḫnz.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ḫnz active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ḫnz.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ḫnz active + .tj1, .tw2 ḫnz ḫnz, ḫnzw5, ḫnzy5 imperfective ḫnz, ḫnzy, ḫnzw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ḫnz, ḫnzj6, ḫnzy6 ḫnz, ḫnzw5 prospective ḫnz, ḫnztj7 — ḫnztj4, ḫnzt4 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 ḫnz  

ḫns

[since the Middle Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 299.5–299.19
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 193