ꜥnj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːni/
  • Conventional anglicization: ani

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive, chiefly of people) to be(come) beautiful (+ m or ẖr: in (ornaments); + ḥr: in (a place); + m: as (someone)) [since Middle Kingdom literature]
2. (intransitive, chiefly of people or rays of the sun) to be(come) pleasing (+ n: to (someone))
3. (intransitive, of people) to act in a pleasing manner, to be(come) cheerful, agreeable, friendly (+ n or ḫr: to (someone))
4. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) kind, benevolent, good (+ n: to (someone))

Inflection

Conjugation of ꜥnj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ꜥn, geminated stem: ꜥnn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥnt, ꜥnj	ꜥnw, ꜥn	ꜥnt, ꜥnwt, ꜥnyt	ꜥn	ꜥn, ꜥny

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜥn8, ꜥnn8	ḥr ꜥnt, ḥr ꜥnj	m ꜥnt, m ꜥnj	r ꜥnt, r ꜥnj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ꜥn.n	consecutive	ꜥn.jn
terminative	ꜥnt, ꜥnyt
perfective3	ꜥn	obligative1	ꜥn.ḫr
imperfective	ꜥn, ꜥny
prospective3	ꜥnw, ꜥn, ꜥny	potentialis1	ꜥn.kꜣ
subjunctive	ꜥn, ꜥny

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ꜥn.n	—	—
perfective	ꜥnw1, ꜥny, ꜥn	ꜥn	ꜥny, ꜥn
imperfective	ꜥnn, ꜥnny, ꜥnnw5	ꜥnn, ꜥnnj6, ꜥnny6	ꜥnn, ꜥnnw5
prospective	ꜥnw1, ꜥny, ꜥn, ꜥntj7	ꜥnwtj1 4, ꜥntj4, ꜥnt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnj  

ꜥnj	ꜥnj	ꜥnj	ꜥnj	ꜥnj
			[Late and Greco-Roman Periods]	[Late and Greco-Roman Periods]
			abbreviation	abbreviation

Derived terms

• ꜥn
• ꜥnj jb
• ꜥnj ꜥwj
• ꜥnj ḥr
• ꜥnt

 

Descendants

• Demotic: ꜥn
  • ⇒ Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲛⲉⲓ (anei)
  • ⇒ Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲛⲁⲓ (anai)
  • ⇒ Sahidic Coptic: ⲁⲛⲁⲓ (anai)

References

• “ꜥni̯ (lemma ID 38070)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 190.1–190.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 43