nhnh

Egyptian

Etymology

Reduplication of nh (“to shake”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛhnɛh/
  • Conventional anglicization: nehneh

Verb

 4-lit.

1. (intransitive, hapax) to quake with fear [Middle Kingdom]

Usage notes

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

as Erman and Grapow suggest.

Inflection

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	nhnh.n	consecutive	nhnh.jn
terminative	nhnht
perfective3	nhnh	obligative1	nhnh.ḫr
imperfective	nhnh
prospective3	nhnhw, nhnh	potentialis1	nhnh.kꜣ
subjunctive	nhnh

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	nhnh.n	—	—
perfective	nhnh	nhnh	nhnh, nhnhw5, nhnhy5
imperfective	nhnh, nhnhy, nhnhw5	nhnh, nhnhj6, nhnhy6	nhnh, nhnhw5
prospective	nhnh, nhnhtj7	nhnhwtj1 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.

References

• “nhnh (lemma ID 85660)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• 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