snḫn

Egyptian[edit]

s- (causative prefix) +‎ nḫn (“to be a child”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛnɛxɛn/
- Conventional anglicization: senekhen

caus. 3-lit.

Conjugation of snḫn (causative triliteral / caus. 3-lit. / caus. 3rad.) — base stem: snḫn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
snḫn	snḫnw, snḫn	snḫnt	snḫn	snḫn

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	snḫn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	snḫn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	snḫn	snḫn, snḫnw⁵, snḫny⁵
imperfective	snḫn, snḫny, snḫnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	snḫn, snḫnj⁶, snḫny⁶	snḫn, snḫnw⁵
prospective	snḫn, snḫntj⁷	—	snḫnwtj^{1 4}, snḫntj⁴, snḫnt⁴
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.

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 315.