nḫj

See also: nhj

Egyptian[edit]

3ae inf.

(intransitive or transitive) to lament (± n: to (someone))
(intransitive, in an adjectival predicate with suffixed -wj) to be(come) lamentable or pitiful

Conjugation of nḫj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: nḫ, geminated stem: nḫḫ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
nḫt, nḫj	nḫw, nḫ	nḫt, nḫwt, nḫyt	nḫ	nḫ, nḫy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
nḫ⁸, nḫḫ⁸	ḥr nḫt, ḥr nḫj	m nḫt, m nḫj	r nḫt, r nḫj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	nḫ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	nḫw¹, nḫy, nḫ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	nḫ	nḫy, nḫ
imperfective	nḫḫ, nḫḫy, nḫḫw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	nḫḫ, nḫḫj⁶, nḫḫy⁶	nḫḫ, nḫḫw⁵
prospective	nḫw¹, nḫy, nḫ, nḫtj⁷	—	nḫwtj^{1 4}, nḫtj⁴, nḫt⁴
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 hieroglyphic writings of nḫj

nḫj

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 305.11–305.14
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 137