ẖnm

See also: ḫnm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛnɛm/
  • Conventional anglicization: khenem

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to join, to unite [with m ‘with’]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ẖnm	ẖnmw, ẖnm	ẖnmt	ẖnm	ẖnm

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ẖnm.n	consecutive	ẖnm.jn
terminative	ẖnmt
perfective3	ẖnm	obligative1	ẖnm.ḫr
imperfective	ẖnm
prospective3	ẖnm	potentialis1	ẖnm.kꜣ
subjunctive	ẖnm

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ẖnm.n	—	—
perfective	ẖnm	ẖnm	ẖnm, ẖnmw5, ẖnmy5
imperfective	ẖnm, ẖnmy, ẖnmw5	ẖnm, ẖnmj6, ẖnmy6	ẖnm, ẖnmw5
prospective	ẖnm, ẖnmtj7	ẖnmtj4, ẖnmt4
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 ẖnm  

ẖnm

Derived terms

• nẖnm
• ẖnmt-nfr-ḥḏt

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 217.