ꜥnꜥn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːnɑːn/
  • Conventional anglicization: anan

Etymology 1

From Old Egyptian jnꜥ (“chin”).

Noun

 m

1. chin [Middle & Late Egyptian]

Inflection

Declension of ꜥnꜥn (masculine)

singular	ꜥnꜥn
dual	ꜥnꜥnwj
plural	ꜥnꜥnw

Etymology 2

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive) to complain (+ ḥr: about)

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥnꜥn (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ꜥnꜥn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥnꜥn	ꜥnꜥnw, ꜥnꜥn	ꜥnꜥnt	ꜥnꜥn	ꜥnꜥn

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜥnꜥn.n	consecutive	ꜥnꜥn.jn
terminative	ꜥnꜥnt
perfective3	ꜥnꜥn	obligative1	ꜥnꜥn.ḫr
imperfective	ꜥnꜥn
prospective3	ꜥnꜥnw, ꜥnꜥn	potentialis1	ꜥnꜥn.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜥnꜥn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜥnꜥn.n	—	—
perfective	ꜥnꜥn	ꜥnꜥn	ꜥnꜥn, ꜥnꜥnw5, ꜥnꜥny5
imperfective	ꜥnꜥn, ꜥnꜥny, ꜥnꜥnw5	ꜥnꜥn, ꜥnꜥnj6, ꜥnꜥny6	ꜥnꜥn, ꜥnꜥnw5
prospective	ꜥnꜥn, ꜥnꜥntj7	ꜥnꜥnwtj1 4, ꜥnꜥntj4, ꜥnꜥnt4
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.

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN