skn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛkɛn/
  • Conventional anglicization: seken

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, of crocodiles and people) to be(come) greedy or voracious (+ ḥr: to lust after) [Middle Kingdom literature]
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:

     (j)m ꜣtw r jwf r gs skn šzp dj.f n.k

     Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you.

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
skn	sknw, skn	sknt	skn	skn

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	skn.n	consecutive	skn.jn
terminative	sknt
perfective3	skn	obligative1	skn.ḫr
imperfective	skn
prospective3	skn	potentialis1	skn.kꜣ
subjunctive	skn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	skn.n	—	—
perfective	skn	skn	skn, sknw5, skny5
imperfective	skn, skny, sknw5	skn, sknj6, skny6	skn, sknw5
prospective	skn, skntj7	skntj4, sknt4
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 skn  

skn

References

• “skn (lemma ID 146840)” and “skn (lemma ID 650002)”, 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 (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 318.9–318.10
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 251