wjn

See also: .wjn

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Verb

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) to spurn, to reject, to thrust aside (someone or something) [Middle Kingdom literature to Kushite Period]
    • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.9–1.10:







      (j)m ꜣtw r jwf r gs skn šzp dj.f n.k (j)m wjn st kꜣ szft pw
      Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you. Don’t reject it; then it will be something soothing.

Inflection

Conjugation of wjn (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: wjn, geminated stem: wjnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
wjn
 wjnw, wjn
 wjnt
 wjn
 wjn
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
wjn
 ḥr wjn
 m wjn
 r wjn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect wjn.n
 wjnw, wjn
 consecutive wjn.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative wjnt
perfective3 wjn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 wjn.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective wjn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 wjn
 wjnn
 potentialis1 wjn.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive wjn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect wjn.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective wjn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 wjn
 wjn, wjnw5, wjny5
imperfective wjn, wjny, wjnw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 wjn, wjnj6, wjny6
 wjn, wjnw5
prospective wjn, wjntj7
 — wjntj4, wjnt4

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.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of wjn  








wjn wjn wjn wjn wjn wjꜣn
[Late Period]

References

  • “wjn (lemma ID 44120)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 272.12–272.14
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 56
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 149, 334, 458.
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