nhnh

Egyptian

Etymology

Reduplication of nh (“to shake”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛhnɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: nehneh

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive, hapax legomenon) to quake with fear [Middle Kingdom]

Usage notes

The final glyph in the writing of this word may be erroneous for a determinative, perhaps

as Erman and Grapow suggest.

Inflection

Conjugation of nhnh (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: nhnh

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural nhnh nhnhw, nhnh nhnht nhnh nhnh ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 nhnh ḥr nhnh m nhnh r nhnh suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect nhnh.n consecutive nhnh.jn terminative nhnht perfective3 nhnh obligative1 nhnh.ḫr imperfective nhnh prospective3 nhnhw, nhnh potentialis1 nhnh.kꜣ subjunctive nhnh verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect nhnh.n — — perfective nhnh nhnh nhnh, nhnhw5, nhnhy5 imperfective nhnh, nhnhy, nhnhw5 nhnh, nhnhj6, nhnhy6 nhnh, nhnhw5 prospective nhnh, nhnhtj7 nhnhwtj1 4, nhnhtj4, nhnht4 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.

References

• “nhnh (lemma ID 85660)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 286.6
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 135