f sg 2. stressed (‘independent’) pronoun
- alternative spelling ofntṯ(“you”)
Various uses of the feminine form of therelative adjectiventj.
f- femininesingular ofntj
1 Archaic in Middle Egyptian when modifying a noun.
2 From Middle Egyptian, this feminine singular form was generally used for the plural.
In Late Egyptian, the masculine singular form was used with all nouns.
f
- (introducing a direct relative clause)shewhois,one who is,thatwhich is
- (introducing an indirect relative clause, with a laterresumptive pronoun) she for whom, one for whom, one such that, that for which
- (without a following relative clause) she whoexists, one who exists, that which exists
See the usage notes atntj.
See under the adjective above.
- (introducing a noun clause)serves as acomplementizer to convert a verbal or nonverbal sentence withrealis mood into asubordinated noun clause;that
- Synonym:wnt
When followed by a clause with a pronominal subject and adverbial predicate, the subject takes the form of a suffix pronoun attached tontt. The exceptions to this are clauses with a first-person singular subject, which use the dependent pronounwj, and sometimes a third-person subject, which can use the dependent pronounst. Other subjects rarely also appear in dependent-pronoun form.
Subordinate complement clauses are typically unmarked if their mood isirrealis and marked withntt,wnt, orjwt only if modallyrealis.
- James P[eter] Allen (2010),Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,pages52, 135, 141–142, 195.
- Uljas, Sami (2007)The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses: A Study in Pragmatics in a Dead Language
