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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Verb
4-lit.
- (intransitive) to be worthy of attention, care, respect, and remembrance; to be honored or revered (+ ḫr or n: by)
- 6th Dynasty, Giza, Western Cemetery, Shaft G 2188 Y, Block of sunk relief inscription mentioning the dog Abutiu (35-10-22/Cairo JE 67573), lines 6–10:[1]
- rḏj ḥm.f fṯ ḫwz n jz jn jzwt nt (j)qdw jr.n n.f ḥm.f nw r (j)mꜣḫ.f
- His Majesty gave pine oil and (ordered) that a tomb be built for him by a gang of builders. His majesty has done this for him in order that he be honoured.
- (transitive, hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- to honor, to revere (someone)
- c. 924–909 BCE (reign of Osorkon II), fragment of a block statue of Djedkhonsuiuefankh (Cairo CG 559), robe surface, line 8:
- jmꜣḫ.n wj nṯr ḥr qbḥ(w) šzp
- The god honored me because of the coolness of what was received.
Inflection
Conjugation of jmꜣḫ (quadriliteral / 4-lit. / 4rad.) — base stem: jmꜣḫ
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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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jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫw, jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫt
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jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫ
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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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jmꜣḫ
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ḥr jmꜣḫ
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m jmꜣḫ
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r jmꜣḫ
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| suffix conjugation
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| aspect / mood
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active
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contingent
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active
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| perfect
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jmꜣḫ.n
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consecutive
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jmꜣḫ.jn
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| terminative
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jmꜣḫt
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| perfective3
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jmꜣḫ
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obligative1
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jmꜣḫ.ḫr
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| imperfective
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jmꜣḫ
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| prospective3
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jmꜣḫw, jmꜣḫ
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potentialis1
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jmꜣḫ.kꜣ
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| subjunctive
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jmꜣḫ
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| verbal adjectives
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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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| perfect
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jmꜣḫ.n
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—
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—
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| perfective
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jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫ, jmꜣḫw5, jmꜣḫy5
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| imperfective
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jmꜣḫ, jmꜣḫy, jmꜣḫw5
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jmꜣḫ, jmꜣḫj6, jmꜣḫy6
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jmꜣḫ, jmꜣḫw5
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| prospective
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jmꜣḫ, jmꜣḫtj7
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jmꜣḫwtj1 4, jmꜣḫtj4, jmꜣḫt4
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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 hieroglyphic writings of jmꜣḫ
Derived terms
Noun
m
- worthiness of attention, care, respect, and remembrance by future generations; roughly dignity, honor (+ r: due to (someone))
- in particular, the state of dignity or honor attributed to one of the dead who have been judged righteous
- ― zbj r jmꜣḫ ― to attain blessedness (after death)
- venerable age, old age
- (Old Kingdom) ― zbj jmꜣḫ ― to live to old age
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫ
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jmꜣḫ
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Derived terms
Noun
m
- spinal column, backbone, including the spinal cord
- mythologically, the vertebral canal of the snake through which the sun is said to travel
Inflection
Declension of jmꜣḫ (masculine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmꜣḫ
References
- “jmꜣḫ (lemma ID 25050)”, “jmꜣḫ (lemma ID 25060)”, and “jmꜣḫ (lemma ID 25040)”, 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 (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 81.11–81.24
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 20
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 301–302, 364.
- ^ Reisner, George A. (1936) “The Dog which was Honored by the King of Upper and Lower Egypt” in Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, volume XXXIV, number 206, pages 96–99
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