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Egyptian [ edit ] Pronunciation [ edit ] 3-lit.
( intransitive , with n r ) match up to, to equal or resemble in a positive way ( transitive , rare ) live as long as (a time), to have one’s lifetime equal or match up to
c. BCE BCE ,
Pyramid Texts of Merenre — west wall of the corridor’s middle section, line 12–13, spell 606.26–606.28:
[1] nmtj-m-zꜣ.f mr.n-rꜥ pn ḏj.sn ꜥnḫ.k nḥr .k jtrw ḥr-ꜣḫtj m jrt.sn rn.f m ḥr jr nṯrw O Nemtyemzaef Merenre , they will make you live and equal the seasons of Horakhty when they made his identity as the One Far From The Gods. Inflection [ edit ]
Conjugation of nḥr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: nḥr , geminated stem: nḥrr
infinitival forms
imperative
infinitive
negatival complement
complementary infinitive1
singular
plural
nḥr nḥrw , nḥr nḥrt nḥr nḥr
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem
periphrastic imperfective 2
periphrastic prospective 2
nḥr ḥr nḥr m nḥr r nḥr
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood
active
passive
contingent
aspect / mood
active
passive
perfect
nḥr.n nḥrw , nḥr consecutive
nḥr.jn active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
terminative
nḥrt
perfective 3
nḥr active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 obligative1
nḥr.ḫr active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
imperfective
nḥr active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
prospective 3
nḥr nḥrr potentialis1
nḥr.kꜣ active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
subjunctive
nḥr active + .tj 1 , .tw 2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood
relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
participles
active
passive
active
passive
perfect
nḥr.n active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 —
—
perfective
nḥr active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 nḥr nḥr , nḥrw 5 , nḥry 5
imperfective
nḥr , nḥry , nḥrw 5 active + .tj 1 , .tw 2 nḥr , nḥrj 6 , nḥry 6 nḥr , nḥrw 5
prospective
nḥr , nḥrtj 7 —
nḥrtj 4 , nḥrt 4
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 .s .sj .sn .snj .sn
Only in the masculine singular.
Only in the masculine.
Only in the feminine.
Alternative forms [ edit ]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nḥr
Derived terms [ edit ] References [ edit ] Erman, Adolf , Grapow, Hermann (1928 ) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache [1] →ISBN pages 298.1–298.10 Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962 ) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian , Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN page 137
^ Allen, James (2013 ) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts , volume V, Providence: Brown University, PT 606.26–606.28 (Pyr. 1693a–1693c), M
