sḫntj

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 February 2024

s- (causative prefix) +‎ ḫntj (“to go forward or upstream”)

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛxɛnɛti/
- Conventional anglicization: sekheneti

caus. 4ae inf.

Conjugation of sḫntj (causative fourth weak / caus. 4ae inf. / caus. IV. inf.) — base stem: sḫnt

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
sḫnt	sḫntw, sḫntyw, sḫnt	sḫntt, sḫntwt, sḫntyt	sḫnt	sḫnt, sḫnty

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sḫnt.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	sḫntw¹, sḫnty, sḫnt	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḫnt	sḫnty, sḫnt
imperfective	sḫnt, sḫnty, sḫntw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	sḫnt, sḫntj⁶, sḫnty⁶	sḫnt, sḫntw⁵
prospective	sḫntw¹, sḫnty, sḫnt, sḫnttj⁷	—	sḫntwtj^{1 4}, sḫnttj⁴, sḫntt⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of sḫntj

sḫntj

in sense ‘to send upstream’

Possible descendants:

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 189, 250, 295.