jkn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

 m

  1. cup, jar, bowl
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.5–1.6:




      jw jkn n(j) mw ꜥḫm.f jbt jw mḥ{t}⟨w⟩ r(ꜣ) m šww smn.f jb
      For a cup of water quenches thirst, for a mouthful of šww-herbs makes the heart firm.

Inflection
Declension of jkn (masculine)
singular jkn
dual jknwj
plural jknw

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jkn  
jkꜣnꜣ
equivalence with jkn disputed

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to scoop out or scoop up, especially to draw (water)

Inflection
Conjugation of jkn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: jkn, geminated stem: jknn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
jkn
 jknw, jkn
 jknt
 jkn
 jkn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
jkn
 ḥr jkn
 m jkn
 r jkn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect jkn.n
 jknw, jkn
 consecutive jkn.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative jknt
perfective3 jkn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 jkn.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective jkn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 jkn
 jknn
 potentialis1 jkn.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive jkn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect jkn.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective jkn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 jkn
 jkn, jknw5, jkny5
imperfective jkn, jkny, jknw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 jkn, jknj6, jkny6
 jkn, jknw5
prospective jkn, jkntj7
 — jkntj4, jknt4
  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, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

References
  • Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 139.18, 140.1–140.2
  • Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 32
  • Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 42–43
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 235.

Finnish

Pronoun

jkn

  1. Abbreviation of jonkun (“of somebody, somebody's”).

Usage notes
  • This abbreviation is chiefly used in dictionaries.

See also
  • jk (abbr. of "jokin")
  • jku (abbr. of "joku")

Anagrams
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