ḫnms

See also: HNMS

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛnmɛs/
  • Conventional anglicization: khenmes

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (transitive) to be friendly with

Inflection

Conjugation of ḫnms (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: ḫnms

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḫnms	ḫnmsw, ḫnms	ḫnmst	ḫnms	ḫnms

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	ḫnms.n	ḫnmsw, ḫnms	consecutive	ḫnms.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	ḫnmst
perfective3	ḫnms	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	ḫnms.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	ḫnms	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	ḫnmsw, ḫnms	ḫnmsw, ḫnms	potentialis1	ḫnms.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	ḫnms	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḫnms.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḫnms	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḫnms	ḫnms, ḫnmsw5, ḫnmsy5
imperfective	ḫnms, ḫnmsy, ḫnmsw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḫnms, ḫnmsj6, ḫnmsy6	ḫnms, ḫnmsw5
prospective	ḫnms, ḫnmstj7	—	ḫnmswtj1 4, ḫnmstj4, ḫnmst4
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.

Noun

 m

1. friend

Inflection

Declension of ḫnms (masculine)

singular	ḫnms
dual	ḫnmswj
plural	ḫnmsw

Noun

 m

1. a kind of beer

Inflection

Declension of ḫnms (masculine)

singular	ḫnms
dual	ḫnmswj
plural	ḫnmsw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫnms  

ḫnms

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 294.13–295.7, 295.10–295.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 193
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 240.