nḥr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 May 2020

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛhɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: neher

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, with n or r) to match up to, to equal or resemble in a positive way
2. (transitive, rare) to live as long as (a time), to have one’s lifetime equal or match up to
   • c. 2255 BCE – 2246 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Merenre — west wall of the corridor’s middle section, line 12–13, spell 606.26–606.28:

     nmtj-m-zꜣ.f mr.n-rꜥ pn ḏj.sn ꜥnḫ.k nḥr.k jtrw ḥr-ꜣḫtj m jrt.sn rn.f m ḥr jr nṯrw

     O Nemtyemzaef Merenre, they will make you live and equal the seasons of Horakhty when they made his identity as the One Far From The Gods.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural nḥr nḥrw, nḥr nḥrt nḥr nḥr ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 nḥr ḥr nḥr m nḥr r nḥr suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect nḥr.n nḥrw, nḥr consecutive nḥr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative nḥrt perfective3 nḥr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 nḥr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective nḥr active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 nḥr nḥrr potentialis1 nḥr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive nḥr active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect nḥr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective nḥr active + .tj1, .tw2 nḥr nḥr, nḥrw5, nḥry5 imperfective nḥr, nḥry, nḥrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 nḥr, nḥrj6, nḥry6 nḥr, nḥrw5 prospective nḥr, nḥrtj7 — nḥrtj4, nḥrt4 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 nḥr  

nḥrw

[Old Kingdom]

Derived terms

• nḥrw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 298.1–298.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 137