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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
3ae inf.
- (intransitive) to give way, to yield, to retreat
- (intransitive, imperative) turn back!
- (transitive) to repulse, to drive away (+ r or ḥꜣ: from (a place))
Inflection
Conjugation of ḥmj (third weak / 3ae inf. / III. inf.) — base stem: ḥm, geminated stem: ḥmm
| infinitival forms
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imperative
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| infinitive
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negatival complement
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complementary infinitive1
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singular
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plural
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ḥmt, ḥmj
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ḥmw, ḥm
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ḥmt, ḥmwt, ḥmyt
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ḥm
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ḥm, ḥmy
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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contingent
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| aspect / mood
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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ḥm.n
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ḥmw, ḥm, ḥmy
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consecutive
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ḥm.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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ḥmt, ḥmyt
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| perfective3
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ḥm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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ḥm.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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ḥm, ḥmy
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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ḥmw, ḥm, ḥmy
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ḥmw, ḥm, ḥmy
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potentialis1
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ḥm.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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ḥm, ḥmy
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| verbal adjectives
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| aspect / mood
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relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms
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participles
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| active
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passive
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active
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passive
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| perfect
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ḥm.n
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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—
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—
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| perfective
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ḥmw1, ḥmy, ḥm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ḥm
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ḥmy, ḥm
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| imperfective
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ḥmm, ḥmmy, ḥmmw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ḥmm, ḥmmj6, ḥmmy6
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ḥmm, ḥmmw5
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| prospective
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ḥmw1, ḥmy, ḥm, ḥmtj7
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—
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ḥmwtj1 4, ḥmtj4, ḥmt4
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- 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.
- Third-person masculine statives of this class often have a final -y instead of the expected stative ending.
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥmj
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 79.1–79.21
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 169
