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 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 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.