ḫntš

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /xɛntɛʃ/
  • Conventional anglicization: khentesh

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive) to walk about, to fare

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḫntš	ḫntšw, ḫntš	ḫntšt	ḫntš	ḫntš

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ḫntš.n	consecutive	ḫntš.jn
terminative	ḫntšt
perfective3	ḫntš	obligative1	ḫntš.ḫr
imperfective	ḫntš
prospective3	ḫntšw, ḫntš	potentialis1	ḫntš.kꜣ
subjunctive	ḫntš

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ḫntš.n	—	—
perfective	ḫntš	ḫntš	ḫntš, ḫntšw5, ḫntšy5
imperfective	ḫntš, ḫntšy, ḫntšw5	ḫntš, ḫntšj6, ḫntšy6	ḫntš, ḫntšw5
prospective	ḫntš, ḫntštj7	ḫntšwtj1 4, ḫntštj4, ḫntšt4
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.

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive) to have enjoyment, to be glad
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 21:

     bw-nb ḫntš(.w) jbw nḏm(.w) ḥꜣtjw ẖr ršwt

     Everybody is glad, minds are sweet, hearts are in joy.

2. (transitive) to rejoice over, to be happy about
3. (transitive) to gladden, to please [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḫntš	ḫntšw, ḫntš	ḫntšt	ḫntš	ḫntš

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

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḫntš.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	ḫntš	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḫntš	ḫntš, ḫntšw5, ḫntšy5
imperfective	ḫntš, ḫntšy, ḫntšw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	ḫntš, ḫntšj6, ḫntšy6	ḫntš, ḫntšw5
prospective	ḫntš, ḫntštj7	—	ḫntšwtj1 4, ḫntštj4, ḫntšt4
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 ḫntš  

ḫntš

Noun

 m

1. joy

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫntš  

ḫntš

Noun

 m

1. Alternative form of ḫntj-š (“orchard”)

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 311.6–312.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 195