mnmn

Egyptian

Perhaps by metathesis from the earlier-attested nmnm (“to move about, to quiver”).

4-lit.

(intransitive) to move
(intransitive) to move back and forth, to quake, to wobble
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 59–60:
  
  ḫtw ḥr gmgm tꜣ ḥr mnmn
  Trees were breaking, the ground was quaking.
(transitive) to move

Conjugation of mnmn (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: mnmn

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
mnmn	mnmnw, mnmn	mnmnt	mnmn	mnmn

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
mnmn	ḥr mnmn	m mnmn	r mnmn

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	mnmn.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	mnmn	active + .tj¹, .tw²	mnmn	mnmn, mnmnw⁵, mnmny⁵
imperfective	mnmn, mnmny, mnmnw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	mnmn, mnmnj⁶, mnmny⁶	mnmn, mnmnw⁵
prospective	mnmn, mnmntj⁷	—	mnmnwtj^{1 4}, mnmntj⁴, mnmnt⁴
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. 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. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mnmn

mnmn

[since the New Kingdom]

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 80–81.15
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 109

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