skn

Egyptian

3-lit.

(intransitive) to be(come) greedy or voracious (+ ḥr: to lust after)
- 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
  Don’t raven after meat next to a voracious man; partake when he gives to you.

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
skn	sknw, skn	sknt	skn	skn

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
aspect / mood	active	active	passive
perfect	skn.n	—	—
perfective	skn	skn	skn, sknw⁵, skny⁵
imperfective	skn, skny, sknw⁵	skn, sknj⁶, skny⁶	skn, sknw⁵
prospective	skn, skntj⁷	skntj⁴, sknt⁴
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.

Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 318.9–318.10
Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 251

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