ḥntj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun
HHn
n		 t
y		 N31

 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  
HHn
n		 t
y		 Y1
HHn
n		 t
y		 N31
HHn
n		 t
y		 N31
N31
HHn
n		 t
y		 V36
HHn
n		 t
y		 V36V36
HHn
n		 t
y		 V36N31
N31
V36t
y
V36V36N31
N31
HU8
n
t y		 V36V36
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

Verb
HHn
n		 t
I3		 A24

 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
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
  8. 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  
HHn
n		 t
y		 I3
HHn
n		 t
y		 V36A24
HHn
n		 tA24
HV36Nt
I3
ḥntj ḥntj ḥntj ḥntj

References
  • “ḥn.tj (lemma ID 106120)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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, 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, 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
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