ꜥnn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ʕaˈnan/ → /ʕaˈnan/ → /ʕaˈnan/ → /ʕaˈnan/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2500 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕaˈnan/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕaˈnan/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕaˈnan/
• (latest Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /ʕaˈnan/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɑːnɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: anen

Verb

 2ae gem.

1. (intransitive or reflexive) to turn back (+ ḥr: from)
2. (intransitive) to come back, to return
3. (transitive) to turn back, to repel
4. (transitive) to render (plans, arrangements, etc.) ineffective or inoperable
5. (transitive) to tie up, to entwine [Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ꜥnn8	ꜥnn	ꜥnnt	ꜥnn, ꜥn	ꜥnn, ꜥn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ꜥnn, ꜥn	ḥr ꜥnn	m ꜥnn	r ꜥnn

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ꜥnn.n, ꜥn.n	ꜥn	consecutive	ꜥn.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ꜥnnt
perfective3	ꜥn	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ꜥnn.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ꜥnn	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ꜥnn	ꜥnn	potentialis1	ꜥn.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ꜥn	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ꜥn.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ꜥn	active + .tj1, .tw2	ꜥn	ꜥn, ꜥnw5, ꜥny5
imperfective	ꜥnn, ꜥnny, ꜥnnw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ꜥnn, ꜥnnj6, ꜥnny6	ꜥnn, ꜥnnw5
prospective	ꜥn, ꜥntj7	—	ꜥnntj4, ꜥnnt4
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. ꜥn before suffix pronouns.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥnn  

ꜥnn	ꜥnn
in sense ‘tie up’	in sense ‘tie up’

Derived terms

• ꜥn
• ꜥnt

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 188.13–189.7, 192.9
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 43
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 315.