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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
2-lit.
- (transitive) to swallow, devour
c. 2353 BCE – 2323 BCE,
Pyramid Texts of Unas — gable of the west wall of the burial chamber, line 4–5, spell 226.3:
- tꜣ j.ꜥm n.k prt jm.k hjw sḏr zbn
- Earth, swallow up into yourself what has emerged from you! Hiu-serpent, lie down, crawl away!
- (transitive) to know
Inflection
Conjugation of ꜥm (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: ꜥm, geminated stem: ꜥmm
| 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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ꜥm
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ꜥmw, ꜥm
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ꜥmt
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ꜥm, j.ꜥm
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ꜥm, j.ꜥm
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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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ꜥm
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ḥr ꜥm
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m ꜥm
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r ꜥm
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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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ꜥm.n
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ꜥmw, ꜥm
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consecutive
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ꜥm.jn
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| terminative
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ꜥmt
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| perfective3
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ꜥm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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obligative1
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ꜥm.ḫr
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| imperfective
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ꜥm, j.ꜥm1
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| prospective3
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ꜥm
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ꜥmm
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potentialis1
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ꜥm.kꜣ
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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| subjunctive
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ꜥm, j.ꜥm1
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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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ꜥm.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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ꜥm
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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ꜥm
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ꜥmm, ꜥmmj6, ꜥm2, ꜥmw2 5, ꜥmy2 5
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| imperfective
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j.ꜥm1, ꜥm, ꜥmy, ꜥmw5
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active + .tj1, .tw2
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j.ꜥm1, j.ꜥmw1 5, ꜥm, ꜥmj6, ꜥmy6
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ꜥm, ꜥmw5
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| prospective
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ꜥm, ꜥmtj7
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—
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ꜥmtj4, ꜥmt4
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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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Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜥm
Derived terms
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 457.
- ^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume I, Providence: Brown University, PT 226.3 (Pyr. 225c), W
