nrj

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛri/
  • Conventional anglicization: neri

Verb

 3ae inf.

1. (intransitive) to fear, to be afraid (+ n: of)
2. (intransitive) to be in awe (+ n: of)
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 6–7:

     ḏrtjw m ṯḥw mꜣ.sn sw ntjw jm ḥr nr n.f

     The ancestors are in joy when they see him, and the dead are in awe of him.

3. (transitive) to overawe

Inflection

Conjugation of nrj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: nr, geminated stem: nrr

infinitival forms imperative infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural nrt, nrj nrw, nr nrt, nrwt, nryt nr nr, nry ‘pseudoverbal’ forms stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2 nr8, nrr8 ḥr nrt, ḥr nrj m nrt, m nrj r nrt, r nrj suffix conjugation aspect / mood active passive contingent aspect / mood active passive perfect nr.n nrw, nr, nry consecutive nr.jn active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 terminative nrt, nryt perfective3 nr active + .tj1, .tw2 obligative1 nr.ḫr active + .tj1, .tw2 imperfective nr, nry active + .tj1, .tw2 prospective3 nrw, nr, nry nrw, nr, nry potentialis1 nr.kꜣ active + .tj1, .tw2 active + .tj1, .tw2 subjunctive nr, nry active + .tj1, .tw2 verbal adjectives aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles active passive active passive perfect nr.n active + .tj1, .tw2 — — perfective nrw1, nry, nr active + .tj1, .tw2 nr nry, nr imperfective nrr, nrry, nrrw5 active + .tj1, .tw2 nrr, nrrj6, nrry6 nrr, nrrw5 prospective nrw1, nry, nr, nrtj7 — nrwtj1 4, nrtj4, nrt4 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, dual .sn/.snj, 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 nrj  

nrj	nrj	nrj
[Old Kingdom]

Derived terms

• nrw

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 277.4–277.8
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 134