rmnj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb
r
mn		 n
D41

 4ae inf.

  1. (transitive) to carry, to bear up (a person or an object, especially a sacred object such as a cultic image, divine barque, chapel, or statue) [since the Pyramid Texts]
  2. (transitive) to wear, to bear (a crown) [Theban royal tombs and Greco-Roman Period]
  3. (transitive) to support, to hold up (the sky) [Pyramid Texts and New Kingdom magical papyri]
  4. (transitive) to match, to equal or outweigh [Middle Kingdom literature and 19th Dynasty]
  5. (transitive) to bring (something) (+ r: to (a place); + n: to (someone)) [Greco-Roman Period]
  6. (transitive) to carry off, to carry away [New Kingdom and 25th Dynasty]
  7. (intransitive, with r or ḥr) to support oneself on [chiefly Pyramid Texts]

Inflection
Conjugation of rmnj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: rmn, geminated stem: rmnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
rmn
 rmnw, rmnyw, rmn
 rmnt, rmnwt, rmnyt
 rmn
 rmn, rmny
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
rmn8
 ḥr rmn
 m rmn
 r rmn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect rmn.n
 rmnw, rmn, rmny
 consecutive rmn.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative rmnt
perfective3 rmn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 rmn.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective rmn, rmny
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 rmnw, rmn, rmny
 rmnn
 potentialis1 rmn.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive rmn, rmny
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect rmn.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective rmnw1, rmny, rmn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 rmn
 rmny, rmn
imperfective rmnn, rmnny, rmnnw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 rmnn, rmnnj6, rmnny6
 rmnn, rmnnw5
prospective rmnw1, rmny, rmn, rmntj7
 — rmnwtj1 4, rmntj4, rmnt4
  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.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmnj  
r
n
D210
D210
n
r

D210
r
mn
n
D210
r
mn
n
D44
rmnj rmnj rmnj rmnj rmnj
[Pyramid Texts] [Pyramid Texts] [Pyramid Texts] [Old Kingdom] [Old Kingdom]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of rmnj  
r
mn		 n
D41
D41
r
n		 D41
r
mn
n		 D41
D40
r
mn
n		 D41
D54
r
D41		 A9
D41
D40
rmnj rmnj rmnj rmnj rmnj rmnj rmnj
[since the Middle Kingdom] [since the Middle Kingdom] [Middle Kingdom] [New Kingdom] [Late Period] [Greco-Roman Period] [Greco-Roman Period]
abbreviation abbreviation

Descendants

Černý, following Brugsch, gives the following as a descendant, but Vycichl silently rejects it — indeed, the phonetic match seems difficult to square:

  • >? Bohairic Coptic: ⲁⲙⲟⲛⲓ (amoni)

References
  • “rmni̯ (lemma ID 94400)”, 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 (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 419.4–419.18
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 149
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 6
  • Vycichl, Werner (1983) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Copte, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 9
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