dns

See also: DNS and DN:s

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /dɛnɛs/
  • Conventional anglicization: denes

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) physically heavy
2. (intransitive, of limbs during illness) to feel heavy
3. (intransitive) to be(come) burdensome, onerous, hard to endure (+ r: for (someone))
4. (intransitive, of royal power) to be(come) weighty or forceful (+ r: to lie heavy on)
5. (intransitive, of people) to be(come) grave or serious

Inflection

Conjugation of dns (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: dns, geminated stem: dnss

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural dns dnsw, dns dnst dns dns ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 dns ḥr dns m dns r dns suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect dns.n consecutive dns.jn terminative dnst perfective3 dns obligative1 dns.ḫr imperfective dns prospective3 dns potentialis1 dns.kꜣ subjunctive dns verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect dns.n — — perfective dns dns dns, dnsw5, dnsy5 imperfective dns, dnsy, dnsw5 dns, dnsj6, dnsy6 dns, dnsw5 prospective dns, dnstj7 dnstj4, dnst4 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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of dns  

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References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 468.3–469.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 314