wjn

See also: .wjn

Egyptian

3-lit.

(transitive) to reject
- 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.

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	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
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 wjn

wjn

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 334, 458 page 149, 334, 458.

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