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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2-lit.
- (transitive) to remain ignorant of; to not know or learn
c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE,
Pyramid Texts of Unas — south wall of the antechamber, line 10–11, spell 262.1:
[1]- ḏd-mdw m ḫm wnjs nṯr sṯ ṯw rḫ.t(j) sw sṯ sw rḫ ṯw
- Recitation: Do not be ignorant of Unas, o god, since you know him, since he knows you.
Inflection
Conjugation of ḫm (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ḫm, geminated stem: ḫmm
| 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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ḫm
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ḫmw, ḫm
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ḫmt
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ḫm, j.ḫm
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ḫm, j.ḫm
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| ‘pseudoverbal’ forms
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| stative stem
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periphrastic imperfective2
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periphrastic prospective2
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ḫm
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ḥr ḫm
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m ḫm
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r ḫm
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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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ḫm.n
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ḫmw, ḫm
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consecutive
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ḫm.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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ḫmt
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| perfective3
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ḫm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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ḫm.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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ḫm, j.ḫm1
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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ḫm
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ḫmm
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potentialis1
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ḫm.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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ḫm, j.ḫm1
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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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ḫm.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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ḫm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ḫm
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ḫmm, ḫmmj6, ḫm2, ḫmw2 5, ḫmy2 5
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| imperfective
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j.ḫm1, ḫm, ḫmy, ḫmw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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j.ḫm1, j.ḫmw1 5, ḫm, ḫmj6, ḫmy6
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ḫm, ḫmw5
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| prospective
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ḫm, ḫmtj7
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—
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ḫmtj4, ḫmt4
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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.
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Antonyms
Derived terms
Proper noun
m./f. topo.
- Letopolis
c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE,
Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 1–2:
- špss kꜣ pw ḫnt(j) ḏdw wr ẖrt m ḫm nb hnw m ꜥnḏtj ḫnt(j) ḏf(ꜣ) m jwnw
- He is noble of ka, this foremost one of Busiris, great of possessions in Letopolis, possessor of acclaim in (the nome of) Anedjti, foremost of provisions in Heliopolis,
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫm
Descendants
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 278.5–280.5, 280.15
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 284.
- ^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume III, Providence: Brown University, PT 262.1 (Pyr. 327a), W
