nj zp
Egyptian
Etymology
nj (“not”) + zp (“to happen”) in the perfective.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ni zɛp/
- Conventional anglicization: ni zep
Phrase
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- (with a following verb in the subjunctive) never (has it happened that…); used as a stronger version of the negation of a perfective with nj.
- c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 153–154:
- ḫpr js jwd.k tw r st pn nj zp mꜣ.k jw pn ḫpr(.w) m nwy
- When your parting from this place comes to pass, you will never again see this island, which will have turned into water.
References
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 270.