skn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛkɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: seken

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of crocodiles and people) to be(come) greedy or voracious (+ ḥr: to lust after) [Middle Kingdom literature]
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:

     (j)m ꜣtw r jwf r gs skn šzp dj.f n.k

     Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural skn sknw, skn sknt skn skn ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 skn ḥr skn m skn r skn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active contingent aspect / mood active perfect skn.n consecutive skn.jn terminative sknt perfective3 skn obligative1 skn.ḫr imperfective skn prospective3 skn potentialis1 skn.kꜣ subjunctive skn verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active active passive perfect skn.n — — perfective skn skn skn, sknw5, skny5 imperfective skn, skny, sknw5 skn, sknj6, skny6 skn, sknw5 prospective skn, skntj7 skntj4, sknt4 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 skn  

skn

References

• “skn (lemma ID 146840)” and “skn (lemma ID 650002)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 318.9–318.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 251