ꜥn
Egyptian
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ɑːn/
- Conventional anglicization: an
Etymology 1
From a form of ꜥnn (“to turn back”).
Adverb
- (Late Egyptian) again, once more, anew
- (Late Egyptian) back, to a previous condition or place
- (Late Egyptian) furthermore, in addition
- (Late Egyptian, negated) nor yet, nor
- (Late Egyptian, negated) nevermore, never again
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥn
| ꜥnw | ꜥnw | ꜥnw | ||||||||||
| [Greco-Roman Period] | [Greco-Roman Period] |
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- Akhmimic Coptic: ⲁⲛ (an)
- Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲛ (on)
- Fayyumic Coptic: ⲁⲛ (an)
- Lycopolitan Coptic: ⲁⲛ (an)
- Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲛ (on)
Inflection
Declension of ꜥn (masculine)
| singular | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) |
|---|---|
| dual | ꜥnwj |
| plural | ꜥnw |
Alternative forms
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Etymology 3
Nominalized from the participle of ꜥnj (“to be beautiful, pleasant, kind”).
Inflection
Declension of ꜥn (masculine)
| singular | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) |
|---|---|
| dual | ꜥnwj |
| plural | ꜥnw |
Etymology 4
Compare ꜥf (“there”) and ꜥꜣ (“here, there”), apparently paralleling the several series of demonstrative determiners with endings -n, -f, -ꜣ, for instance pn, pf, and pꜣ.
See also
Old Egyptian demonstratives
| determiners | pronouns1 | adverbs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | singular | dual | plural | unmarked | ||||
| gender | masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | unmarked | |
| proximal to speaker | pn |
tn, jtn |
*jpnj |
*jptnj |
jpn |
jptn |
nn |
— |
| distal | pf |
tf |
*jpfj |
*jptfj |
jpf |
jptf |
nf |
— |
| proximal to spoken of | pj, pw, py, p |
tj, tw, jtw |
jpwj |
*jptwj |
jpw |
jptw |
nw |
— |
| vocative | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
— |
— |
— |
— |
nꜣ |
ꜥꜣ |
| ||||||||
Middle Egyptian demonstratives
| determiners and pronouns | adverbs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | singular | plural1 | ||||
| gender | masculine | feminine | unmarked | |||
| proximal | pn |
tn |
nn |
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| distal | pf, pfꜣ |
tf, tfꜣ |
nf, nfꜣ |
ꜥf | ||
| ‘copula’; vocative | pw, pwy |
tw, twy |
nw |
— | ||
| anaphoric | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
nꜣ |
ꜥꜣ | ||
| ||||||
Late Egyptian demonstratives and articles
| masculine | feminine | plural | adverb | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pronoun | pꜣw |
dj | ||||
| determiners and pronouns | pꜣj |
tꜣj |
nꜣj | |||
| possessive determiners (used with suffix pronouns) | pꜣy |
tꜣy |
nꜣy | |||
| relational pronouns (‘possessive prefixes’) | p-n, pꜣ |
t-nt, tꜣ |
nꜣyw, nꜣ | |||
| definite articles | pꜣ |
tꜣ |
nꜣ1 | |||
| indefinite articles | wꜥ1 |
nhꜣy1 | ||||
| ||||||
References
- “ꜥn (lemma ID 38050)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
- “ꜥn (lemma ID 38020)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
- “ꜥn (lemma ID 38080)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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
- “ꜥn (lemma ID 38000)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 187.11, 187.13–187.14, 189.8–189.16, 190.7
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 43
- Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68–69
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