nj zp

Egyptian

Etymology

nj (“not”) +‎ zp (“to happen”) in the perfective.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ni zɛp/
- Conventional anglicization: ni zep

Phrase

(with a following verb in the subjunctive) never (has it happened that…); used as a stronger version of the negation of a perfective with 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 270

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