rmnj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

4ae inf.

(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]
(transitive) to wear, to bear (a crown) [Theban royal tombs and Greco-Roman Period]
(transitive) to support, to hold up (the sky) [Pyramid Texts and New Kingdom magical papyri]
(transitive) to match, to equal or outweigh [Middle Kingdom literature and 19th Dynasty]
(transitive) to bring (something) (+ r: to (a place); + n: to (someone)) [Greco-Roman Period]
(transitive) to carry off, to carry away [New Kingdom and 25th Dynasty]
(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	aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	rmn.n	rmnw, rmn, rmny	consecutive	rmn.jn	active + .tj¹, .tw²
perfect	rmn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²
terminative	rmnt
perfective³	rmn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	rmn.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
imperfective	rmn, rmny	active + .tj¹, .tw²	obligative¹	rmn.ḫr	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	rmnw, rmn, rmny	rmnn	potentialis¹	rmn.kꜣ	active + .tj¹, .tw²
prospective³	rmnw, rmn, rmny	active + .tj¹, .tw²
subjunctive	rmn, rmny	active + .tj¹, .tw²

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	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	—	rmnwtj^{1 4}, rmntj⁴, rmnt⁴

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.
⁸ 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

[Pyramid Texts]

[Old Kingdom]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmnj

rmnj

[since the Middle Kingdom]

[Middle Kingdom]

[New Kingdom]

[Late Period]

[Greco-Roman Period]

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