ẖn

See also: hn, HN, hN, .hn, h*n, Hn., ḥn, and ḫn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: khen

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (intransitive) to approach (+ m or n: to approach (someone or some place)) [since the Middle Kingdom]

Inflection

Conjugation of ẖn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ẖn, geminated stem: ẖnn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ẖn	ẖnw, ẖn	ẖnt	ẖn, j.ẖn	ẖn, j.ẖn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ẖn	ḥr ẖn	m ẖn	r ẖn

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ẖn.n	consecutive	ẖn.jn
terminative	ẖnt
perfective3	ẖn	obligative1	ẖn.ḫr
imperfective	ẖn, j.ẖn1
prospective3	ẖn	potentialis1	ẖn.kꜣ
subjunctive	ẖn, j.ẖn1

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ẖn.n	—	—
perfective	ẖn	ẖn	ẖnn, ẖnnj6, ẖn2, ẖnw2 5, ẖny2 5
imperfective	j.ẖn1, ẖn, ẖny, ẖnw5	j.ẖn1, j.ẖnw1 5, ẖn, ẖnj6, ẖny6	ẖn, ẖnw5
prospective	ẖn, ẖntj7	ẖntj4, ẖnt4
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 ẖn  

ẖnw

[since the 19th Dynasty]

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⳉⲛⲁⲛ (xnan)
• Fayyumic Coptic: ϩⲱⲛ (hōn)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϩⲱⲛ (hōn)

Noun

 m

1. tent [since the Pyramid Texts]
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.1–1.2:

     wn ẖn n grw wsḫ st nt hr m mdww

     The tent is open to the quiet man; the place of the man calm in speech is broad.

Inflection

Declension of ẖn (masculine)

singular	ẖn
dual	ẖnwj
plural	ẖnw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖn  

ẖn	ẖn	ẖn
[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]	[19th Dynasty]

References

• “ẖn (lemma ID 123110)” and “ẖn (lemma ID 123090)”, 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 368.1–368.8, 373.9–373.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 201
• Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 48