ḫnp

See also: HNP

Egyptian[edit]

FWOTD – 4 August 2021

3-lit.

(transitive) to snatch, to steal
(transitive) to catch (a ball)
(transitive) to present (an offering, especially of water)
- c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) line 4:
  
  ḫnp.n n.f nnw mw.f ḫnt n.f mḥ(y)t mss pt ṯꜣw r fnḏ.f r ḥtp.tw jb.f
  Nun has presented his waters to him, while the north wind goes southward for him, for whose nose the sky brings forth breath in order that his heart be contented,

Conjugation of ḫnp (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ḫnp, geminated stem: ḫnpp

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḫnp	ḫnpw, ḫnp	ḫnpt	ḫnp	ḫnp

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḫnp.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ḫnp	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḫnp	ḫnp, ḫnpw⁵, ḫnpy⁵
imperfective	ḫnp, ḫnpy, ḫnpw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḫnp, ḫnpj⁶, ḫnpy⁶	ḫnp, ḫnpw⁵
prospective	ḫnp, ḫnptj⁷	—	ḫnptj⁴, ḫnpt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫnp

ḫnp

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 290.5–290.17
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 192