nḥr

Egyptian

FWOTD – 3 May 2020

3-lit.

(intransitive, with n or r) to match up to, to equal or resemble in a positive way
(transitive, rare) to live as long as (a time), to have one’s lifetime equal or match up to
- c. 2255 BCE – 2246 BCE, Pyramid Texts of Merenre — west wall of the corridor’s middle section, line 12–13, spell 606.26–606.28:[1]
  
  nmtj-m-zꜣ.f mr.n-rꜥ pn ḏj.sn ꜥnḫ.k nḥr.k jtrw ḥr-ꜣḫtj m jrt.sn rn.f m ḥr jr nṯrw
  O Nemtyemzaef Merenre, they will make you live and equal the seasons of Horakhty when they made his identity as the One Far From The Gods.

Conjugation of nḥr (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: nḥr, geminated stem: nḥrr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
nḥr	nḥrw, nḥr	nḥrt	nḥr	nḥr

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	nḥr.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	nḥr	active + .tj¹, .tw²	nḥr	nḥr, nḥrw⁵, nḥry⁵
imperfective	nḥr, nḥry, nḥrw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	nḥr, nḥrj⁶, nḥry⁶	nḥr, nḥrw⁵
prospective	nḥr, nḥrtj⁷	—	nḥrtj⁴, nḥrt⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nḥr

nḥrw

[Old Kingdom]

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 298.1–298.10
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 137

Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume V, Providence: Brown University, PT 606.26–606.28 (Pyr. 1693a–1693c), M

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