nhnh

Egyptian

Reduplication of nh (“to shake”).

4-lit.

The final glyph in the writing of this word may be erroneous for a determinative, perhaps

as Erman and Grapow suggest.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
nhnh	nhnhw, nhnh	nhnht	nhnh	nhnh

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	nhnh.n	—	—
perfective	nhnh	nhnh	nhnh, nhnhw⁵, nhnhy⁵
imperfective	nhnh, nhnhy, nhnhw⁵	nhnh, nhnhj⁶, nhnhy⁶	nhnh, nhnhw⁵
prospective	nhnh, nhnhtj⁷	nhnhwtj^{1 4}, nhnhtj⁴, nhnht⁴
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.

“nhnh (lemma ID 85660)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 286.6
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 135