rmnj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛmni/
  • Conventional anglicization: remni

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (transitive) to carry, to bear up (a person or an object, especially a sacred object such as a cultic image, divine barque, chapel, or statue) [since the Pyramid Texts]
2. (transitive) to wear, to bear (a crown) [Theban royal tombs and Greco-Roman Period]
3. (transitive) to support, to hold up (the sky) [Pyramid Texts and New Kingdom magical papyri]
4. (transitive) to match, to equal or outweigh [Middle Kingdom literature and 19th Dynasty]
5. (transitive) to bring (something) (+ r: to (a place); + n: to (someone)) [Greco-Roman Period]
6. (transitive) to carry off, to carry away [New Kingdom and 25th Dynasty]
7. (intransitive, with r or ḥr) to support oneself on [chiefly Pyramid Texts]

Inflection

Conjugation of rmnj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: rmn, geminated stem: rmnn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
rmn	rmnw, rmnyw, rmn	rmnt, rmnwt, rmnyt	rmn	rmn, rmny

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
rmn8	ḥr rmn	m rmn	r rmn

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	rmn.n	rmnw, rmn, rmny	consecutive	rmn.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	rmnt
perfective3	rmn	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	rmn.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	rmn, rmny	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	rmnw, rmn, rmny	rmnn	potentialis1	rmn.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	rmn, rmny	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	rmn.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	rmnw1, rmny, rmn	active + .tj1, .tw2	rmn	rmny, rmn
imperfective	rmnn, rmnny, rmnnw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	rmnn, rmnnj6, rmnny6	rmnn, rmnnw5
prospective	rmnw1, rmny, rmn, rmntj7	—	rmnwtj1 4, rmntj4, rmnt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmnj  

rmnj	rmnj	rmnj	rmnj	rmnj
[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]	[Pyramid Texts]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmnj  

rmnj	rmnj	rmnj	rmnj	rmnj	rmnj	rmnj
[since the Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[Late Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]	[Greco-Roman Period]
	abbreviation					abbreviation

Related terms

• rmn

 

Descendants

Černý, following Brugsch, gives the following as a descendant, but Vycichl silently rejects it—indeed, the phonetic match seems difficult to square:

• >? Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲟⲛⲓ (amoni)

References

• “rmni̯ (lemma ID 94400)”, 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, pages 419.4–419.18
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 149
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 6
• Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 9