nf

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See also: .nf, 1NF, 2NF, 3NF, 4NF, 5NF, 6NF, NF, Nf., nF, and nf3

Egyptian

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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n
f

 distal demonstrative pronoun

  1. that

Usage notes

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This demonstrative is a pronoun, and so does not directly modify nouns. In Middle Egyptian it becomes used as a demonstrative for plural nouns in place of the old adjectives jpf and jptf. When used in this way, it precedes the noun, with the genitival adjective n(j) in between, e.g. "those feet" is nf n(j) rdw (literally "that of feet").

It forms a contrastive pair with the demonstrative pronoun nn, in which nf is distal.

Inflection

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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n
f
nDs

 m

  1. wrong, wrongdoing
  2. something wrong, erroneous
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 149–150:
      aHaa
      n
      sbt
      bH
      A2n
      f
      imA1mM22M22D&d n&A1 mn
      f
      nDsmibZ1f
      D&d f
      n
      A1D35wrrn
      k
      a
      n
      tywW23
      Z2ss
      xprr
      t
      nbnTrsnn
      t
      rtrN33C
      Z2ss
      ꜥḥꜥ.n sbt.n.f jm.j m nn ḏd.n.j m nf m jb.f ḏd.f n.j (j)n wr n.k ꜥntjw ḫpr.t(j) ⟨m⟩ nb sntr
      Then he laughed at me – and at this that I’d said – as being wrong to his mind, saying to me: Are you abundant in myrrh, turned into a lord of incense?[1]

Alternative forms

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References

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  1. ^ Or ‘You aren’t abundant in myrrh …’, if the initial particle is read as negative nj instead of interrogative jn. The expected negative particle for such a clause would be nn, so an interrogative is more plausible. For a detailed discussion see Scalf, Foy (2009) “Is That a Rhetorical Question? Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage 1115) 150 Reconsidered” in Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, volume 136, issue 2, pages 155–159.