ꜣms

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From ꜣm (“is grasped”) +‎ .s (“she, it”) or ꜣm (“is grasped”) +‎ sj (“she, it”), thus literally ‘it is grasped’.[1]

Noun

AmssS44

 m

  1. a type of club or mace, the ames-sceptre, used as a weapon by the king and the gods
  2. an epithet of the god Osiris
Inflection
Declension of ꜣms (masculine)
singular ꜣms
dual ꜣmswj
plural ꜣmsw
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣms  
AmsS44
S44s
S44
imz
xt
S44A
S44A
nTr
ꜣms ꜣms ꜣms jms ꜣms ꜣms

Verb

AmssS44

 3-lit.

  1. (intransitive) to wield the ames-sceptre
Inflection
Conjugation of ꜣms (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜣms, geminated stem: ꜣmss
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜣms
 ꜣmsw, ꜣms
 ꜣmst
 ꜣms
 ꜣms
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜣms
 ḥr ꜣms
 m ꜣms
 r ꜣms
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active contingent
aspect / mood active
perfect ꜣms.n
 consecutive ꜣms.jn
terminative ꜣmst
perfective3 ꜣms
 obligative1 ꜣms.ḫr
imperfective ꜣms
prospective3 ꜣms
 potentialis1 ꜣms.kꜣ
subjunctive ꜣms
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active active passive
perfect ꜣms.n
 — —
perfective ꜣms
 ꜣms
 ꜣms, ꜣmsw5, ꜣmsy5
imperfective ꜣms, ꜣmsy, ꜣmsw5
 ꜣms, ꜣmsj6, ꜣmsy6
 ꜣms, ꜣmsw5
prospective ꜣms, ꜣmstj7
 ꜣmstj4, ꜣmst4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.

Etymology 2

Verb

AmssE5

 3-lit.

  1. (transitive) Only used in ꜣms-jb (“to be(come) happy, to be(come) cordial”)
Inflection
Conjugation of ꜣms (triliteral / 3-lit. / 3rad.) — base stem: ꜣms, geminated stem: ꜣmss
infinitival forms imperative
infinitive negatival complement complementary infinitive1 singular plural
ꜣms
 ꜣmsw, ꜣms
 ꜣmst
 ꜣms
 ꜣms
‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem periphrastic imperfective2 periphrastic prospective2
ꜣms
 ḥr ꜣms
 m ꜣms
 r ꜣms
suffix conjugation
aspect / mood active passive contingent
aspect / mood active passive
perfect ꜣms.n
 ꜣmsw, ꜣms
 consecutive ꜣms.jn
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative ꜣmst
perfective3 ꜣms
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 obligative1 ꜣms.ḫr
 active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective ꜣms
 active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3 ꜣms
 ꜣmss
 potentialis1 ꜣms.kꜣ
 active + .tj1, .tw2
active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive ꜣms
 active + .tj1, .tw2
verbal adjectives
aspect / mood relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms participles
active passive active passive
perfect ꜣms.n
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 — —
perfective ꜣms
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ꜣms
 ꜣms, ꜣmsw5, ꜣmsy5
imperfective ꜣms, ꜣmsy, ꜣmsw5
 active + .tj1, .tw2
 ꜣms, ꜣmsj6, ꜣmsy6
 ꜣms, ꜣmsw5
prospective ꜣms, ꜣmstj7
 — ꜣmstj4, ꜣmst4
  1. Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian.
  2. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian.
  3. 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.
  4. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn.
  5. Only in the masculine singular.
  6. Only in the masculine.
  7. Only in the feminine.
Alternative forms

See the forms at ꜣms-jb.

Etymology 3

Noun

AmssnDs
Z2

 m

  1. Alternative form of jwms (“exaggeration, nonsense”)

References

  1. ^ Gundacker, Roman (2011) “On the Etymology of the Egyptian Crown Name mrsw.t*: An “Irregular” Subgroup of m-Prefix Formations” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 19, page 38
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