mnḫ

See also: MNH and mnḥ

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛnɛx/
  • Conventional anglicization: menekh

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to be effective
2. (intransitive) to be worthwhile

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
mnḫ	mnḫw, mnḫ	mnḫt	mnḫ	mnḫ

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
mnḫ	ḥr mnḫ	m mnḫ	r mnḫ

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	mnḫ.n	consecutive	mnḫ.jn
terminative	mnḫt
perfective3	mnḫ	obligative1	mnḫ.ḫr
imperfective	mnḫ
prospective3	mnḫ	potentialis1	mnḫ.kꜣ
subjunctive	mnḫ

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	mnḫ.n	—	—
perfective	mnḫ	mnḫ	mnḫ, mnḫw5, mnḫy5
imperfective	mnḫ, mnḫy, mnḫw5	mnḫ, mnḫj6, mnḫy6	mnḫ, mnḫw5
prospective	mnḫ, mnḫtj7	mnḫtj4, mnḫt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mnḫ  

mnḫ

Derived terms

• jnr ḥḏ mnḫ n rwḏt
• smnḫ

Adjective

1. perfective active participle of mnḫ: effective, worthwhile

Inflection

Declension of mnḫ (perfective active participle)

	masculine	feminine
singular	mnḫ	mnḫt
dual	mnḫwj	mnḫtj
plural	mnḫw	mnḫwt1, mnḫt2
Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun. From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural. In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.

Alternative forms

See under the verb above.

Derived terms

See under the verb above.

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 83, 118, 317, 378.