ḥn

See also: hn, HN, hN, h*n, .hn, Hn., ḫn, and ẖn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb
HHn
n		 V36Y1V

 2-lit.

  1. (transitive) to bring (a temple, the land, etc.) into order
  2. (transitive) to equip, to supply (buildings or people) (+ m: with)
  3. (transitive) to protect, to guard (something holy: a temple, tomb, or god) (+ r: against)
  4. (transitive) to order, to command (something to be done)
  5. (intransitive) to order, to command (+ n: someone; + r and infinitive: to do (something))
  6. (transitive) to say forcefully, to impress (+ n: to, upon (someone))
  7. (transitive) to engage (people) to do something, to set to some task
  8. (transitive) to entrust or charge (+ n: someone) to do (something)
  9. (transitive) to commend, to entrust (someone) (+ n: to (someone else))

Inflection
Conjugation of ḥn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ḥn, geminated stem: ḥnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥn
 ḥnw, ḥn
 ḥnt
 ḥn, j.ḥn
 ḥn, j.ḥn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥn
 ḥr ḥn
 m ḥn
 r ḥn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ḥn.n
 ḥnw, ḥn
 consecutive ḥn.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ḥnt
perfective3 ḥn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 ḥn.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ḥn, j.ḥn1
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ḥn
 ḥnn
 potentialis1 ḥn.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ḥn, j.ḥn1
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ḥn.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ḥn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ḥn
 ḥnn, ḥnnj6, ḥn2, ḥnw2 5, ḥny2 5
imperfective j.ḥn1, ḥn, ḥny, ḥnw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 j.ḥn1, j.ḥnw1 5, ḥn, ḥnj6, ḥny6
 ḥn, ḥnw5
prospective ḥn, ḥntj7
 — ḥntj4, ḥnt4
  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.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥn  
Hn
ḥn
[Old Kingdom]

Descendants
  • Coptic: ϩⲱⲛ (hōn)

Verb
HHn
n		 D54

 2-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to go with speed and purpose, to hurry, to advance speedily (+ r and infinitive or + following clause: to go do (something); + r: to (a place); + n: to (a person); + m: from (a place); + ḥnꜥ or jrm: with (someone))
  2. (intransitive) to attack, to move against an enemy

Inflection
Conjugation of ḥn (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ḥn, geminated stem: ḥnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ḥn
 ḥnw, ḥn
 ḥnt
 ḥn, j.ḥn
 ḥn, j.ḥn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ḥn
 ḥr ḥn
 m ḥn
 r ḥn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ḥn.n
 consecutive ḥn.jn
terminative ḥnt
perfective3 ḥn
 obligative1 ḥn.ḫr
imperfective ḥn, j.ḥn1
prospective3 ḥn
 potentialis1 ḥn.kꜣ
subjunctive ḥn, j.ḥn1
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ḥn.n
 — —
perfective ḥn
 ḥn
 ḥnn, ḥnnj6, ḥn2, ḥnw2 5, ḥny2 5
imperfective j.ḥn1, ḥn, ḥny, ḥnw5
 j.ḥn1, j.ḥnw1 5, ḥn, ḥnj6, ḥny6
 ḥn, ḥnw5
prospective ḥn, ḥntj7
 ḥntj4, ḥnt4
  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
  • “ḥn (lemma ID 105900)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “ḥn (lemma ID 105920)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • “ḥn (lemma ID 105930)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 101.1–101.20, 102–103.22
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 171
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 83, 465.
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