nrj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛri/
  • Conventional anglicization: neri

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to fear, to be afraid (+ n: of)
2. (intransitive) to be in awe (+ n: of)
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 6–7:

     ḏrtjw m ṯḥw mꜣ.sn sw ntjw jm ḥr nr n.f

     The ancestors are in joy when they see him, and the dead are in awe of him.

3. (transitive) to overawe

Inflection

Conjugation of nrj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: nr, geminated stem: nrr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
nrt, nrj	nrw, nr	nrt, nrwt, nryt	nr	nr, nry

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
nr8, nrr8	ḥr nrt, ḥr nrj	m nrt, m nrj	r nrt, r nrj

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	nr.n	nrw, nr, nry	consecutive	nr.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	nrt, nryt
perfective3	nr	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	nr.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	nr, nry	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	nrw, nr, nry	nrw, nr, nry	potentialis1	nr.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	nr, nry	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	nr.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	nrw1, nry, nr	active + .tj1, .tw2	nr	nry, nr
imperfective	nrr, nrry, nrrw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	nrr, nrrj6, nrry6	nrr, nrrw5
prospective	nrw1, nry, nr, nrtj7	—	nrwtj1 4, nrtj4, nrt4
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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nrj  

nrj	nrj	nrj
[Old Kingdom]

Derived terms

• nrw

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 277.4–277.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 134