ḥmsj

Egyptian

4ae inf.

(intransitive) to sit down, to sit (+ ḥr: on, at; + m: in; + r: beside, at; + r and infinitive: in order to do (something))
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 1.7–1.8:
  
  jr ḥms.k ḥnꜥ ꜣfꜥ wnm.k ꜣḫf.f swꜣ(.w)
  If you sit with a glutton, you should eat when his burning appetite has passed.
(intransitive) to dwell, to stay or live (+ m: in, at; + ḥnꜥ: with)
(intransitive, with ḥr) to besiege (a place)
(transitive) to occupy (a seat, etc.)
(transitive) to seat (someone)

Conjugation of ḥmsj (fourth weak / 4ae inf. / IV. inf.) — base stem: ḥms

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive¹	singular	plural
ḥmst, ḥmsj	ḥmsw, ḥmsyw, ḥms	ḥmst, ḥmswt, ḥmsyt	ḥms	ḥms, ḥmsy

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective²		periphrastic prospective²
ḥms⁸	ḥr ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj	m ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj	r ḥmst, ḥr ḥmsj

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
aspect / mood	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	ḥms.n	active + .tj¹, .tw²	—	—
perfective	ḥmsw¹, ḥmsy, ḥms	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḥms	ḥmsy, ḥms
imperfective	ḥms, ḥmsy, ḥmsw⁵	active + .tj¹, .tw²	ḥms, ḥmsj⁶, ḥmsy⁶	ḥms, ḥmsw⁵
prospective	ḥmsw¹, ḥmsy, ḥms, ḥmstj⁷	—	ḥmswtj^{1 4}, ḥmstj⁴, ḥmst⁴
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.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥmsj

ḥmsj

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“ḥmsi̯ (lemma ID 105780)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 96.13–98.22
Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 170
James P Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 157, 207, 250, 255, 271.
Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 55