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
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.

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