snḫn

Egyptian

Etymology

s- (causative prefix) +‎ nḫn (“to be a child”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛnɛxɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: senekhen

Verb

 caus. 3-lit.

1. (transitive) to rear (a child)

Inflection

Conjugation of snḫn (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: snḫn

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural snḫn snḫnw, snḫn snḫnt snḫn snḫn ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 snḫn ḥr snḫn m snḫn r snḫn suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect snḫn.n snḫnw, snḫn consecutive snḫn.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative snḫnt perfective3 snḫn active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 snḫn.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective snḫn active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 snḫnw, snḫn, snḫny snḫnw, snḫn, snḫny potentialis1 snḫn.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive snḫn active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect snḫn.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective snḫn active + .tj1, .tw2 snḫn snḫn, snḫnw5, snḫny5 imperfective snḫn, snḫny, snḫnw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 snḫn, snḫnj6, snḫny6 snḫn, snḫnw5 prospective snḫn, snḫntj7 — snḫnwtj1 4, snḫntj4, snḫnt4 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 315.