tnm

See also: ṯnm

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛnɛm/
  • Conventional anglicization: tenem

Verb

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive) to go astray, to be(come) lost [since the Pyramid Texts]

Inflection

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

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
tnm	tnmw, tnm	tnmt	tnm	tnm

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

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	contingent
		aspect / mood	active
perfect	tnm.n	consecutive	tnm.jn
terminative	tnmt
perfective3	tnm	obligative1	tnm.ḫr
imperfective	tnm
prospective3	tnm	potentialis1	tnm.kꜣ
subjunctive	tnm

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms	participles
	active	active	passive
perfect	tnm.n	—	—
perfective	tnm	tnm	tnm, tnmw5, tnmy5
imperfective	tnm, tnmy, tnmw5	tnm, tnmj6, tnmy6	tnm, tnmw5
prospective	tnm, tnmtj7	tnmtj4, tnmt4
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 forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of tnm  

tnm

[Old Kingdom and Late Period]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 260.