mjnj

Egyptian
FWOTD – 10 January 2018

Pronunciation

Verb

 4ae inf.

  1. (intransitive) to moor (a boat)
    • 12th Dynasty, Tomb of Sarenput I, great biographical inscription, line 7:[1]










      […] ḥr(j) dmjw m tꜣ-ztj nꜥꜥw mjnw ẖr st ḥr.f
      […] Supervisor of the Harbours in Ta-Seti, the one who sailed and the one who moored were under his inspection.
  2. (intransitive, euphemistic) to die
    • 12th Dynasty, Tomb of Djefaihapi (Asyut Tomb 1), great hall, east wall, north side of door, line 267:[2]








      jw.j sḫꜣ.j spr.j r nṯr hrw pf n(j) mjnj gm.f wj
      I was thinking about the fact that I would reach (my) god on that day of dying (literally: mooring), when he would find me.

Usage notes

The written order of the radicals of this word transposes the n and the first j for aesthetic reasons.

Inflection
Conjugation of mjnj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: mjn, geminated stem: mjnn
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
mjn
 mjnw, mjnyw, mjn
 mjnt, mjnwt, mjnyt
 mjn
 mjn, mjny
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
mjn8
 ḥr mjn
 m mjn
 r mjn
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect mjn.n
 consecutive mjn.jn
terminative mjnt
perfective3 mjn
 obligative mjn.ḫr
imperfective mjn, mjny
prospective3 mjnw, mjn, mjny
 potentialis mjn.kꜣ
subjunctive mjn, mjny
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect mjn.n
 — —
perfective mjnw1, mjny, mjn
 mjn
 mjny, mjn
imperfective mjnn, mjnny, mjnnw5
 mjnn, mjnnj6, mjnny6
 mjnn, mjnnw5
prospective mjnw1, mjny, mjn, mjntj7
 mjnwtj1 4, mjntj4, mjnt4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
  8. Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mjnj  

mjnj mjnj
in the sense ‘to die’ in the sense ‘to die’

Derived terms

References
  1. Sethe, Kurt (1935) Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums VII: Historisch-biographische Urkunden des Mittleren Reiches, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 2
  2. Griffith, Francis Llewellyn (1889) The Inscriptions of Siûṭ and Dêr Rîfeh, plate 6.
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