ḥntj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛnti/
  • Conventional anglicization: henti

Etymology 1

Noun

 m du

1. ends, far reaches, span (of time)
   1. span, term, duration of time [since the Old Kingdom]
   2. long time, eternity (+ genitive: endlessly many of (some span of time), an eternity of)
   3. future, time to come
   4. (negated) ends, limits of time [Middle Kingdom literature and 18th Dynasty]
   5. (with genitive) lifetime, lifespan (of someone) [Greco-Roman Period]
2. (uncommon) ends, far reaches, span (of space)
   1. uttermost ends, furthest reaches (of the sky) [Book of the Dead]
   2. span, space (of a unit of length) [18th Dynasty and Greco-Roman Period]
   3. two sides (of a river) [18th Dynasty]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥntj  

ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj
[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[since the 18th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]
						abbreviation	abbreviation

Etymology 2

Verb

 4ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to be greedy or covetous (+ ḥr: after, over) [Middle Kingdom literature and Late Period]

Inflection

Conjugation of ḥntj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḥnt, geminated stem: ḥntt

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
ḥnt	ḥntw, ḥntyw, ḥnt	ḥntt, ḥntwt, ḥntyt	ḥnt	ḥnt, ḥnty

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
ḥnt8	ḥr ḥnt	m ḥnt	r ḥnt

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	ḥnt.n	consecutive	ḥnt.jn
terminative	ḥntt
perfective3	ḥnt	obligative1	ḥnt.ḫr
imperfective	ḥnt, ḥnty
prospective3	ḥntw, ḥnt, ḥnty	potentialis1	ḥnt.kꜣ
subjunctive	ḥnt, ḥnty

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	ḥnt.n	—	—
perfective	ḥntw1, ḥnty, ḥnt	ḥnt	ḥnty, ḥnt
imperfective	ḥntt, ḥntty, ḥnttw5	ḥntt, ḥnttj6, ḥntty6	ḥntt, ḥnttw5
prospective	ḥntw1, ḥnty, ḥnt, ḥnttj7	ḥntwtj1 4, ḥnttj4, ḥntt4
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. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥntj  

ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj	ḥntj

References

• “ḥn.tj (lemma ID 106120)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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
• “ḥnti̯ (lemma ID 107400)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[2], 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^[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 105.10–106.16, 121.12–121.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, pages 171–173