gnn

See also: GNN

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /kʼaˈnan/ → /kʼaˈnan/ → /kʼəˈnan/ → /kʼəˈnan/

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

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ɡɛnɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: genen

Verb

 2ae gem.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) soft

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
gnn8	gnn	gnnt	gnn, gn	gnn, gn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
gnn, gn	ḥr gnn	m gnn	r gnn

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	gnn.n, gn.n	consecutive	gn.jn
terminative	gnnt
perfective3	gn	obligative1	gnn.ḫr
imperfective	gnn
prospective3	gnn	potentialis1	gn.kꜣ
subjunctive	gn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	gn.n	—	—
perfective	gn	gn	gn, gnw5, gny5
imperfective	gnn, gnny, gnnw5	gnn, gnnj6, gnny6	gnn, gnnw5
prospective	gn, gntj7	gnntj4, gnnt4
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. gn before suffix pronouns.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of gnn  

gnn

Derived terms

• sgnn

Descendants

• Fayyumic Coptic: ϭⲛⲁⲛ (cnan)
• Sahidic Coptic: ϭⲛⲟⲛ (cnon)
• Bohairic Coptic: ϭⲛⲟⲛ (cnon)

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 207, 249.