rnpj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /ˈɾinpit/ → /ˈɾinpiʔ/ → /ˈɾenpa/ → /ˈɾenpə/

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

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /rɛnɛpi/
  • Conventional anglicization: renepi

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be(come) young
2. (intransitive) to be(come) fresh

Inflection

Conjugation of rnpj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: rnp

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
rnpt, rnpj	rnpw, rnpyw, rnp	rnpt, rnpwt, rnpyt	rnp	rnp, rnpy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
rnp8	ḥr rnpt, ḥr rnpj	m rnpt, ḥr rnpj	r rnpt, ḥr rnpj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	rnp.n	consecutive	rnp.jn
terminative	rnpt
perfective3	rnp	obligative1	rnp.ḫr
imperfective	rnp, rnpy
prospective3	rnpw, rnp, rnpy	potentialis1	rnp.kꜣ
subjunctive	rnp, rnpy

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	rnp.n	—	—
perfective	rnpw1, rnpy, rnp	rnp	rnpy, rnp
imperfective	rnp, rnpy, rnpw5	rnp, rnpj6, rnpy6	rnp, rnpw5
prospective	rnpw1, rnpy, rnp, rnptj7	rnpwtj1 4, rnptj4, rnpt4
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.

Derived terms

• rnpwt

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 250.