nfr n

Egyptian

Etymology

nfr (“not even”) +‎ n.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfɛr ɛn/
- Conventional anglicization: nefer en

Phrase

(chiefly Old Egyptian, with a following imperfective emphatic form) not, that not
(Middle Egyptian, with a following imperfective emphatic form) used to negate the protasis of conditional sentences

Usage notes

In Middle Egyptian, the use of the verb tm (“to not do, not be”) largely supplanted the construction with nfr n except in protases.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nfr n

nfr

D35

nfr nj

References

Allen, James (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, revised second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 195, 414

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.