ḥwn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to be(come) young

Inflection
Conjugation of ḥwn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḥwn, geminated stem: ḥwnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥwn
 ḥwnw, ḥwn
 ḥwnt
 ḥwn
 ḥwn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥwn
 ḥr ḥwn
 m ḥwn
 r ḥwn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ḥwn.n
 consecutive ḥwn.jn
terminative ḥwnt
perfective3 ḥwn
 obligative ḥwn.ḫr
imperfective ḥwn
prospective3 ḥwn
 potentialis ḥwn.kꜣ
subjunctive ḥwn
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ḥwn.n
 — —
perfective ḥwn
 ḥwn
 ḥwn, ḥwnw5, ḥwny5
imperfective ḥwn, ḥwny, ḥwnw5
 ḥwn, ḥwnj6, ḥwny6
 ḥwn, ḥwnw5
prospective ḥwn, ḥwntj7
 ḥwntj4, ḥwnt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Derived terms

Noun

 m

  1. young man, youth, lad

Inflection
Declension of ḥwn (masculine)
singular ḥwn
dual ḥwnwj
plural ḥwnw

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 383.
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