snḫbḫb

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ nḫbḫb (“draw back (of a door-bolt)”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛnɛxɛbxɛb/
  • Conventional anglicization: senekhebkheb

Verb

 caus. 5-lit.

1. (transitive) to cause (a door-bolt) to draw back; to draw back (a door bolt)

Inflection

Conjugation of snḫbḫb (causative quinquiliteral / caus. 5-lit. / caus. 5rad.) — base stem: snḫbḫb

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural snḫbḫb snḫbḫbw, snḫbḫb snḫbḫbt snḫbḫb snḫbḫb ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 snḫbḫb ḥr snḫbḫb m snḫbḫb r snḫbḫb suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect snḫbḫb.n snḫbḫbw, snḫbḫb consecutive snḫbḫb.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative snḫbḫbt perfective3 snḫbḫb active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 snḫbḫb.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective snḫbḫb active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 snḫbḫbw, snḫbḫb, snḫbḫby snḫbḫbw, snḫbḫb, snḫbḫby potentialis1 snḫbḫb.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive snḫbḫb active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect snḫbḫb.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective snḫbḫb active + .tj1, .tw2 snḫbḫb snḫbḫb, snḫbḫbw5, snḫbḫby5 imperfective snḫbḫb, snḫbḫby, snḫbḫbw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 snḫbḫb, snḫbḫbj6, snḫbḫby6 snḫbḫb, snḫbḫbw5 prospective snḫbḫb, snḫbḫbtj7 — snḫbḫbwtj1 4, snḫbḫbtj4, snḫbḫbt4 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

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158.