šnꜥ

Egyptian

3-lit.

(transitive) to drive off, to repulse, to repel (people, animals, bad weather, etc.)
(transitive) to hold (someone) off, to keep (someone) away (+ ḥr: from (a person); + r: from (a place))
(transitive) to expel, to banish (someone)
(transitive) to hamper (someone’s steps) [Late Period, Greco-Roman Period]
(transitive) to block (a door, a path)
(transitive) to police (a district)
(intransitive, of fish) to dart about

Conjugation of šnꜥ (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: šnꜥ, geminated stem: šnꜥꜥ

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
šnꜥ	šnꜥw, šnꜥ	šnꜥt	šnꜥ	šnꜥ

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

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	šnꜥ.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	šnꜥ	active + .tj¹, .tw²	šnꜥ	šnꜥ, šnꜥw⁵, šnꜥy⁵
imperfective	šnꜥ, šnꜥy, šnꜥw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	šnꜥ, šnꜥj⁶, šnꜥy⁶	šnꜥ, šnꜥw⁵
prospective	šnꜥ, šnꜥtj⁷	—	šnꜥtj⁴, šnꜥt⁴
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 šnꜥ

šnꜥ

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 504.5–505.13
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 269