jnk

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic *ˀanāku. Cognate with Proto-Semitic *ʾanāku.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /inɛk/
  • Conventional anglicization: inek

 sg 1. stressed (‘independent’) pronoun

1. I, me (see usage notes)
   • Stela of Hekaib, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, AP 78:

     jnk nḏs jqr

     I (was) an excellent individual

Unlike the suffix pronouns and dependent pronouns, the independent pronouns are not tied to any other element of the sentence. Nevertheless, the meaning of an independent pronoun depends on context:

• After an infinitive, it is the subject of the verb.
• Before a noun, its meaning can be ambiguous:
  • In the first and second person, it could be the subject of a noun phrase.
  • Alternatively, in all persons, it can be the predicate of a noun phrase.
  • If the noun is a participle, then in all persons it could be either the subject or the predicate of a noun phrase.
  • If the demonstrative pronoun pw is placed between the pronoun and the noun, the pronoun is definitely the predicate.
• Before an adjective, in the first person only, it is the subject of an adjectival phrase.

When the independent pronoun is the subject it may, but does not always, indicate an emphasised subject.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jnk  

jnk	jnk	jnk	jnk	jnk	jnk

Further, this pronoun can optionally be varied to indicate the identity of the antecedent — a distinction which would not have been indicated in speech, e.g.:

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jnk  

male human	female human	god	god or king	king	king	dead human

• Demotic: jnk
  • Coptic: ⲁⲛⲟⲕ (anok)

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

jnk

1. Abbreviation of jonkin.

• This abbreviation is chiefly used in dictionaries.

• jkn