ḥwn

See also: hwn

Egyptian

3-lit.

(intransitive) to be(come) young (literally, in body or in akh) [since the Pyramid Texts]
(intransitive) to (re)gain the strength or vigor of youth, to be rejuvenated
(transitive) to make young, to rejuvenate [Greco-Roman Period]

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḥwn	ḥwnw, ḥwn	ḥwnt	ḥwn	ḥwn

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	ḥwn.n	—	—
perfective	ḥwn	ḥwn	ḥwn, ḥwnw⁵, ḥwny⁵
imperfective	ḥwn, ḥwny, ḥwnw⁵	ḥwn, ḥwnj⁶, ḥwny⁶	ḥwn, ḥwnw⁵
prospective	ḥwn, ḥwntj⁷	ḥwntj⁴, ḥwnt⁴
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 ḥwn

ḥwn

[Old Kingdom]

m

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwn

ḥwn

m

Declension of ḥwn (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwn

ḥwn

m

Declension of ḥwn (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwn

ḥwn

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 52.2–53.5, 53.7–53.9, 54.3–54.14, 55.3–55.4
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 166
James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 383.

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