ẖnn

See also: hnn and ḥnn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /çɛnɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: khenen

Verb

 2ae gem.

1. (transitive) to trouble, to disturb

Inflection

Conjugation of ẖnn (second geminate / 2ae gem. / II. gem.) — base stem: ẖn, geminated stem: ẖnn

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural ẖnn8 ẖnn ẖnnt ẖnn, ẖn ẖnn, ẖn ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 ẖnn, ẖn ḥr ẖnn m ẖnn r ẖnn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect ẖnn.n, ẖn.n ẖn consecutive ẖn.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative ẖnnt perfective3 ẖn active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 ẖnn.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective ẖnn active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 ẖnn ẖnn potentialis1 ẖn.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive ẖn active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect ẖn.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective ẖn active + .tj1, .tw2 ẖn ẖn, ẖnw5, ẖny5 imperfective ẖnn, ẖnny, ẖnnw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 ẖnn, ẖnnj6, ẖnny6 ẖnn, ẖnnw5 prospective ẖn, ẖntj7 — ẖnntj4, ẖnnt4 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. 8 ẖn before suffix pronouns.

Derived terms

• ẖnnw

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 294.