gnẖ

Egyptian[edit]

3-lit.

(transitive) to plate something with gold
- c. 1600 BCE, Westcar Papyrus, column 7, line 13:^[1]
  
  […] m ssnḏm gnẖ r.f m nbw
  […] of ssnḏm-wood plated with gold.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
gnẖ	gnẖw, gnẖ	gnẖt	gnẖ	gnẖ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	gnẖ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	gnẖ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	gnẖ	gnẖ, gnẖw⁵, gnẖy⁵
imperfective	gnẖ, gnẖy, gnẖw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	gnẖ, gnẖj⁶, gnẖy⁶	gnẖ, gnẖw⁵
prospective	gnẖ, gnẖtj⁷	—	gnẖtj⁴, gnẖt⁴
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.